Progress through Innovation Opening Remarks

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Oct 7, 2008  |  Boston, MA

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Nisha Pillai (Master of Ceremonies), MIT Chancellor Phil Clay and Legatum Center Founder Iqbal Quadir kick off the day's events.

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  • Guests enjoying breakfast before the welcoming address.
  • Legatum Fellow Robin Bartling standing for the audience as Nisha Pillai introduces this year's twelve Legatum Fellows
  • Legatum Fellows catching up during the morning's breakfast
  • MIT Chancellor Phil Clay
  • Nisha Pillai welcomes the Progress Through Innovation attendees

Speakers

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Nisha Pillai

World News Presenter
BBC

Nisha Pillai sets the stage for the 2008 Progress through Innovation conference by posing the question, "Development and entrepreneurship-what do they have to do with each other?"

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Phillip L. Clay

Chancellor and Professor of City Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"This is a challenge that we are up for at MIT." Chancellor Phil Clay speaking about the ambitious goals of the Legatum Center.

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Iqbal Z. Quadir

Founder and Director
Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, MIT

Iqbal Quadir credits MIT and Cambridge-based innovators for sowing the seeds for a "new Silicon Valley . . . geared towards equity and prosperity in poor countries" and pledges the Legatum Center's collaboration in this endeavor. >>see interview