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Interview with Richard Swart

December 8, 2013
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Richard Swart

Director of Research, The Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance
University of California at Berkeley

Biography

Swart holds a PhD in information systems from Utah State University and studied at the University of Utah and Stanford University. He has more than 20 years of experience extending throughout the fields of finance, entrepreneurship, education and government. Following the passage of the JOBS Act, Swart assisted administration officials to coordinate several educational events throughout the United States.

Swart helped to establish the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) and co-organized the first national conference on crowdfunding. He has as worked nationally to develop initiatives for entrepreneur funding and business competitions, and has been instrumental in the development of crowdfunding. He was recently lead author of a forthcoming study of crowdfunding internationally for the World Bank.