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Al Whittaker (1918 – September 27 2006) founded the non-profit organization Opportunity International and helped to popularize microcredit lending.In 1971 Whittaker left his job as president of Bristol Myers to found the Institute for International Development Incorporated (IIDI) a micro-enterprise organization. Barry Harper was IIDI’s first Executive Director and oversaw establishment of offices in Colombia Peru Honduras Kenya the Dominican Republic and Indonesia.