Organisation: Cranfield School of Management
Website: Personal profile at M-CRIL

Malcolm Harper is emeritus professor of enterprise development, Cranfield School of Management, UK, and since 1995 has worked independently, mainly in India. He has published on self-employment, enterprise development, microfinance and livelihoods, most recently Inclusive Value Chains in India: Linking the Smallest Producers to Modern Markets (World Scientific Publishing, 2009), What’s Wrong with microfinance? (co-edited with T. Dichter, Practical Action, 2008) and (co-authored with D.S.K. Rao and A.K. Sahu, 2009), Development, divinity and dharma: The role of religion in development and micro-finance institutions, Development in Practice, 19(3): 434–436.

Professor Harper was chairman of Basix Finance in India for 10 years, and is chairman of M-CRIL, an international microfinance and social rating company. He was the founding editor of the journal Small Enterprise Development (now Enterprise Development and Microfinance, published by Practical Action), and is a director and trustee of Homeless International, EDA (UK) Limited, APT Enterprise Development, PA Publications in the UK and other related institutions.