Ryan Malitz

Director of Administration and Consulting

Ryan is an Economics and Mathematics double major at the University of Chicago. He has been with UCMI since January 2011. Last winter, he was a member of a consulting team which analyzed membership surveys to identify the client’s target client base. The team presented their findings in front of the client’s Board of Directors along with recommendations for better marketing to new members and more efficient data-collection techniques. In the spring of 2011, Ryan played a role in UCMI’s decision to invest in a Peruvian MFI. As a member of the investment team, he conducted in-depth research into the MFI’s financial performance over the past decade and its potential for future growth. His research provided the investment team’s pitchbook with quantitative evidence that Pro Mujer Peru represented a sound investment opportunity.

Ryan first got interested in microcredit after he read Muhammad Yunus’ book Banker to the Poor. As an economics and public policy double major, the book and microcredit offered Ryan a spark of hope in the “dismal science” that he had not encountered in his courses. Like a surprising number of University of Chicago students, Ryan enrolled in the university with the ambition of “helping people” in some way, and to him microcredit seemed to be the perfect synthesis of economics and making the world a better place. On campus, he is also a member of the Model United Nations of the University of Chicago.

In his spare time, Ryan is passionate about attending as many concerts as he can and anything pertaining to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. He is also an active fencer.

Email him at: rymalitz@uchicago.edu