Dr Donald Franklin, Chair

Donald Franklin is a Founder Trustee and Chair of the Jerusalem Interest-free Microfinance Fund Limited. He has responsibility for day to day communication with the JIMF office in Jerusalem. He shares with Fiyaz Mughal responsibility for liaising with institutional foundations in the UK and the USA.

Donald has worked as a Senior Economic Adviser in the UK’s Government Economic Service for the last thirteen years, both at H M Treasury, and latterly at the Department of Health. He is Co-Chair of the Inter-departmental Group on the Value of Life and Health, and Treasurer of the Middle East and North Africa Health Policy Forum (a regional network of health policy experts sponsored by the UK).  Prior to joining the Government Economic Service in 1991, Donald served as Chief Economist to Schroders PLC (then an independent British merchant bank) for a number of years.

Donald was educated at King’s College Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and received his PhD from University College London in 2000. Publications include “Groups in Conflict: Community versus Equality”, University of Wales Press, (March 2008), “Are Jewish and Muslim Aspirations for the Land Compatible”, Encounters 9:2(2003), pp 183-96, and “A Public Language Test of Moral Objectivity” Proceedings of 21st International Wittgenstein Symposium”, Kirchberg, 1998.