Mr. Cunningham joined the Coady Institute in 1997, bringing more than a decade of experience in the establishment and management of community-based micro-lending programs. He teaches in the areas of Community Economic Analysis, Asset-based Community Development, and Community-Based Microfinance.
Currently, he is working on a three-year capacity building initiative with the rural training unit of SEWA Bank in Gujarat State, India. He is also in the process of developing an action-research initiative with several Coady partner organizations and the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Illinois to explore the relevance of the Asset-Based Community Development approach in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Mr. Cunningham received his MA (Rural Planning and Development) from the University of Guelph, and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo.
Contact: gcunning@stfx.ca