It is with great pleasure that I transition to my new role as the inaugural executive director of MIT’s Center for Finance and Policy (CFP). As someone who has focused on government financial institutions for many years, I welcome this new beginning as a chance to direct sunlight towards a unique se...
Across 11 countries and 3 continents, the 2024-2025 cohort of Student Fellows at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship are building ventures rooted in the realities of their communities and countries. These 12 entrepreneurs are using artificial intelligence (AI) not only to ...
Perrin Quarshie, MBA ’16, hoped to learn what pitfalls to avoid and how to make a sustainable career during the 2008 recession. What he found, though, would go far beyond his short-term future.
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James Geshwiler, MBA ’00, is the chief financial officer of Catalyze, an independent power producer he co-founded in 2017 that develops, finances, owns, and operates renewable energy assets for commercial real estate in the United States.
After establishing a strong foothold in Uganda and Zambia through the Shona Capital platform, Kuo Sharper Initiative (KSI), a U.S.-based impact investment fund, is now actively exploring entry into the Ghanaian market. In October 2025 I made an on-the-ground fact-finding mission that evaluated regul...
Sergio Humeda Gomez, EMBA '16, is CEO and founder of Salterra, a firm focused on providing real estate finance and business management consulting services as well as industrial operation solutions for the material handling industry.
Cesar Ortiz, EMBA ’16, built a successful career in accounting and banking, rising from CPA at PwC to a senior executive at Oriental Bank, but by age 40 he knew he wanted to grow beyond technical expertise. The MIT Executive MBA transformed his mindset from precision-driven finance to strategic, sys...
Today the MIT CFP announced the winners of its first crowd-sourced contest, “What is a Systemically Important Financial Institution?” A collaboration between the MIT Center for Finance and Policy and the Harvard Crowd Innovation Laboratory, the contest was launched to generate new proposals to speci...
GCFP appoints Jan Eberly as Distinguished Senior Fellow
