Prior to founding Farmer & Company in 1992, Michael Farmer was a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and a Director of Bain & Company. He headed Bain's Munich, Paris and London offices during the company's decade of European expansion in the 1980s. Michael lived and worked in Brazil, Switzerland, Turkey, Germany, France and UK for more than 20 years. He was associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Naval Science at Iowa State University.