Michael Kieschnick is president and co-founder of Working Assets, a telecommunications company that donates a portion of its revenues to progressive nonprofit groups and engages its members in civic activism. Under Michael's direction as president, Working Assets has grown dramatically, from $2 million in revenues in 1991 to more than $100 million today. Michael has been a key founder in four companies and three nonprofits.

He currently serves on the boards of The Beatitudes Society, Sojourners, the American Environmental Safety Institute, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, and the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center Foundation.

He has written several books on capital markets and development, most recently Credit Where It's Due (with Julia Parzen), the authoritative study of development banking. For many years, he was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching a graduate seminar on financial innovation. He currently teaches a class on social innovation at Stanford University.

Michael earned bachelor's degrees in biology and economics at Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University. Michael lives outside San Francisco with his wife (who is an Episcopal priest) and has two teenage children.