Bottom-Up Progress Panel

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Oct 7, 2008  |  Boston, MA

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Professors Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Ira Jackson, and Ed Roberts take to the stage to tackle some of the conference’s most pressing questions: Why are developing countries a critical part of world progress?

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  • In 2050, one out of every five people is going to be from Africa. Professor Lehmann highlighting the massive changes in demographic trends
  • Nisha Pilla sitting with Bottom-Up panelists Ira Jackson and Ed Roberts
  • Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Director of the Evian Group
  • Ira Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School of Management.

Speakers

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Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Professor of International Political Economy, IMD, Lausanne Switzerland
Founding Director of the Evian Group

"We are living through a period of unbelievable transformation." Professor Jean-Pierre Lehmann discussing the role of developing countries in this changing world context.   >>see interview

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Ira Jackson

Henry Y. Hwang Dean, Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Claremont Graduate University

Ira Jackson, Dean of the Drucker School of Management, speaking to how the Boston area, with its unique and historic track record of innovation, is an ideal setting for the Legatum Center

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Ed Roberts

Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Founder and Chair, MIT Entrepreneurship Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Professor Ed Roberts comments that, increasingly, foundations "are seeing the opportunity to invest in companies which . . . provide benefits to society."