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Lecturer: Jacqueline Novogratz

CEO and Founder, Acumen Fund
Author, The Blue Sweater

 

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Legatum Lecture Series Presents:
Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO and Founder, Acumen Fund

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Location: MIT, Third Floor of Student Center, Twenty Chimneys, W20-306
Time: 12:00- 1:00 p.m.
Open to the general public free of charge

Jacqueline Novogratz
CEO, Acumen Fund
Author, The Blue Sweater

 

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund supporting market-based, entrepreneurial solutions to poverty alleviation in countries ranging from India to Tanzania. Prior to founding the Acumen Fund, Novogratz founded a microfinance institution in Rwanda.  Her book, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, was published in March 2009.


 

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