Michael Turner, Ph.D. is the founder, President and CEO of PERC. He is a prominent expert on credit access, credit reporting and scoring, information policy, and economic development. He has advised two Presidential administrations, testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures, and presented studies to numerous US federal government agencies as well as the White House. His think tank PERC is a partner organization to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Most recently, Dr. Turner co-founded Verify4, a verifications company in the US. He serves as CEO.
Dr. Turner has worked on projects in over 25 countries on six continents, and is a global thought leader on consumer and commercial credit information sharing. He has worked on projects for the OECD, the Inter-American Development Bank (BID), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group, and US AID among others. He also launched the Asia-Pacific Credit Coalition and serves as the credit reporting “Sherpa” to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and the Asia Pacific Financial Forum (APFF) to promote financial inclusion among the 21 member economies of the APEC.
Dr. Turner served as Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information at the Columbia Business School in New York City, Executive Director of the Information Services Executive Council, manager of government affairs for the North American Telecommunications Association, and staff assistant in the U.S. Senate.
Dr. Turner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in International Political Economy and his B.A. from Miami University in Economics. He was awarded a Yeck Fellowship from Harvard Business School, and was awarded the Ashoka Foundation Fellowship in 2009.
