Forrest Metz

Forrest Metz is the Founder and Managing Director of Dev Equity, a risk capital fund that aims to help improve the lives of people living in low-income countries by investing in private companies that can make a positive social and environmental impact. Since 2011, Dev Equity has made investments in Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.
  
He previously served as an investment development manager for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a bilateral development finance. He has also advised leading private, public and non-governmental organizations supporting enterprise and sustainable economic development initiatives in Latin America, Africa and the South Pacific.
  
​Forrest earned a Ph.D. in Management at the University of Cambridge, an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in Finance and International Business from Georgetown University.