Michael Swack

Michael Swack is a professor at the University of New Hampshire, where he has appointments at the Carsey School of Public Policy and at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. He founded the Center for Impact Finance in 2013 and served as director through 2023. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the Center. He also started the Master’s Program in Community Development at UNH, a program designed for adult practitioners. He continues to teach in that program. At Carsey, he works on building scale in the community development finance sector, innovations in community development finance, microfinance, and equitable clean energy financing. He also directs the Financial Innovations Roundtable, an annual convening hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank. He has over forty years of experience in the fields of economic development, finance, and development banking. Michael has published in the areas of economic development and development finance. He received his doctorate degree from Columbia University, his master’s degree from Harvard University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.