Michael Levett was a consultant on international economic development, creating private sector-led initiatives and public-private partnerships that promote local economic opportunity and growth and strengthen the building blocks of sustainable, equitable development.

Working with diverse industries and projects (from supply chain-driven solutions to post-harvest loss to private finance and multi-institution approaches to the rising forced displacement migration crisis), he supported multi-sector strategies in emerging and frontier markets around the globe. Formerly President and CEO of Citizens Development Corps (now PYXERA Global), Mr. Levett led the organization’s expansion into more than 80 countries on 5 continents and its transition from public sector funding to financing its activities with private sector contracting.  He also led the creation of the group’s practice area in supply chain /local content development because of the unmatched potential of expanded local enterprise contracting to engage international businesses including oil & gas and mining, agriculture/agribusiness, and tourism to create new national and family wealth, spread prosperity, and increase the ability to participate in the global economy.

Prior to joining CDC, Mr. Levett served as the founding president of Business for Social Responsibility after having developed and managed trade, cultural, and commercial ventures in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe. His professional background included vice presidencies at two international film production companies, Lucasfilm Ltd. (where he conceived and developed new business projects, negotiated international and domestic agreements and managed division’s financial, administration, and creative staffs) and Dino DeLaurentiis Corp. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, a  campaign manager in several states, a White House Fellow in Washington, D.C., and a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

He was a Senior Social Innovation Fellow at Babson College and a member of the Board of Directors of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, the group that introduced impact investing philosophy and strategies to frontier markets almost 30 years ago.

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