Associates

David Porteous

Founder and Principal, Bankable Frontier Associates
David Porteous contributes synthesis research on regulatory policy, including research on regulatory laws and their impacts. He is the founder and principal of Bankable Frontier Associates, a niche consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. He has undertaken consultancy assignments in the areas of housing finance, inclusive financial sectors and making markets work for the poor for a range of clients including the Affordable Housing Institute, DFID and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). Prior to relocating from South Africa to Boston in 2004, he was active in executive leadership roles in the development finance sector of South Africa with private and public entities as well as an NGO and a public-private partnership. He has written several books including Banking on Change (DoubleStorey 2004), a book which chronicles and analyses changes in the retail financial sector of South Africa in the decade since democracy. David has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Cape Town, Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Cambridge and a Phd in Economics from Yale.