John Paul
Retired
World Resources Institute
John is a Research Analyst with Development through Enterprise, a project of WRI's Sustainable Growth in Emerging Economies objective. His reseach centers on quantifying how businesses can serve basic human needs in low-income communities.
As a developer and moderator of Nextbillion.net, John writes extensively on private sector strategies for poverty alleviation. He also consults for USAID's Last Mile Initiative, and has spent a year living in India working for n-Logue Communications, an IIT-incubated business that is setting up wirelessly connected franchised Internet kiosks throughout the country.
John graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy.
