Alex Counts

Author,
United States

Alex Counts is the author of Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind: Leadership Lessons from Three Decades of Social Entrepreneurship (Revised edition) (Rivertowns Books, 2021), a consultant to mission-driven organizations, and a professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1997 he established Grameen Foundation with the support of Professor Yunus and ran the organization for its first 18 years.  

Counts’ other writings include Small Loans, Big Dreams: Grameen Bank and the Microfinance Revolution in Bangladesh, America and Beyond (2022 Edition). Counts has also been published in The Washington Post, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Times of India, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy.