Dr. Alok Misra is the CEO & Director of MFIN. He has 32 years of professional experience in international development, rural finance, microfinance, inclusive finance and research at both policy and implementation level and has worked across 24 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and Pacific. He started his career with India's apex rural development bank (NABARD) in 1992 wherein his work spanned financial sector supervision, institutional development, microfinance, agricultural/rural finance and rural livelihoods/MSME finance. He was also a part of the multi institutional task force (2003-2004) responsible for setting up India's first online demutualized commodities exchange (NCDEX).

Dr. Alok Misra holds a PhD in Development Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, Master in Development Management (Gold Medallist) from Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He was awarded ADB-Government of Japan scholarship for MDM programme and NZAID scholarship for his PhD. He has been trained at Harvard Business School in "Strategic leadership for Microfinance" and was a Fellow, Fletcher Leadership Program for Financial Inclusion at Tufts University