Carter Garber, Ph.D. is an accomplished bilingual international development consultant with a track record in the creation and advice of social enterprises, impact investment funds and microfinance institutions. His expertise honed through his exposure and work in four continents has helped him to embed cutting-edge and global perspectives to any initiative he embarks on. He has served as a consultant in socially responsible investments of Oikocredit and Calvert Impact Capital. He supported the founding of MicroVest, started by CARE.Dr. Garber has supported several microfinance institutions as a founder, trainer and consultant, mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean. PRESTANIC and ENLACE are among the institutions he created and helped to succeed. He founded 10 social enterprises that have continued for more than 20 years. Carter is the founder and Executive Director of IDEAS, an international NGO with 40 years of experience in the provision of technical assistance, training and consulting services to support poverty alleviation programs. IDEAS is expert in social businesses and investment funds social impact evaluation and management. Under his leadership, IDEAS have developed a well-established network of consultants in the four continents. Visit www.ideasnet.orgDr. Garber is the CEO who has coordinated IDEAS development. IDEAS exists to help resource-poor people around the world get the tools and skills they need to build secure and sustainable futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. We do this by helping to improve the organizations that provide inclusive finance or economic development services. These include NGOs, microfinance institutions, social enterprises, for-profits, impact investors and funds, and development organizations.He has influenced international NGOs, private sector and governments. Carter founded and taught at the Microenterprise Development Institute in Southern New Hampshire University, which trained hundreds of professionals. He is an active member of the American Evaluation Association where he collaborates in the social impact evaluation and measurement committee and is a workshop trainer.Dr. Garber is an innovator. He began promoting micro franchising as a new approach to strengthening the enterprises of low-income persons. He created TecAp a micro franchise in which rural women sell solar-powered items and young people received training to install and repair the solar panels. Visit www.tecap.info