Sam Daley-Harris
Microcredit Summit Campaign
“Sustainable Pathways Out of Poverty: What Is Our Role?”

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Biography:

Sam Daley-Harris is founder and President of RESULTS Educational Fund. RESULTS Educational Fund is a 501(c)(3) international organization dedicated to mass educational strategies to generate the will to end world hunger. RESULTS Educational Fund organized the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC. The Summit was attended by more than 2,900 participants from 137 countries and launched a plan to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005. Daley-Harris was Director of the Summit and directs its follow-up campaign.

Daley-Harris is also founder and President of RESULTS, an international citizens' lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty. There are 100 RESULTS groups in the U.S. and 40 more in six other countries. Mr. Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about which Jimmy Carter said, "[Daley-Harris] provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future."

In 1995, Daley-Harris received The Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and, in 1997, he received the Caring Award from the Caring Institute.

Mr. Daley-Harris has degrees in music, played percussion instruments in the Miami Philharmonic for 12 years, and is a songwriter. He is married and lives in Washington, DC with his wife Shannon, who is a consultant with the Religious Affairs Division of the Children's Defense Fund. Their son Micah was born in May 1998 and daughter Sophie was born in May 2001.