Mr. Timothy Lyman
President and Executive
Director
Day, Berry & Howard Legal
Foundation, United States
Tim Lyman is president
and executive director of the Day, Berry
& Howard Foundation, a philanthropic and
legal consulting organization affiliated
with the large Northeastern U.S. law
firm of Day, Berry & Howard LLP. He is
the founding chair of its Microfinance
Law Collaborative. He is also a partner
of Day, Berry & Howard, LLP, where he
specializes in community development and
microfinance law, as well as
governmental, nongovernmental and
multilateral programs and entities that
regulate and provide capital for such
purposes. In this capacity, he and Day,
Berry & Howard serve as principal
outside counsel to Save the
Children/U.S. and have advised numerous
other internationally active clients on
microfinance legal and regulatory
issues.
Lyman has more than 20
years of community development-related
legal and consulting experience, both
within the United States and
internationally, in the fields of legal
and regulatory framework development,
microfinance and small business
development. During the past decade, he
has lectured and consulted extensively
on the legal issues affecting
microfinance and the development of
civil society and its institutions in
new republics of the former Soviet Union
and Central and Eastern Europe — a
region to which he returns 20 years
after having lived there as a student.
He serves as international legal issues
advisor to the Microfinance Centre for
Central and Eastern Europe and the New
Independent States in Warsaw and the
Russian Microfinance Center in Moscow.
Lyman is a primary
author, along with Robert Peck Christen
and Richard Rosenberg, of CGAP’s
Microfinance Consensus Guidelines:
Guiding Principles on the Regulation and
Supervision of Microfinance. Lyman
received his undergraduate degree from
Harvard University and his law degree
from New York University Law School,
both in the United States. He is
conversant in a number of European
languages. |
