From Our Director

Iqbal Z. Quadir, Founder and Director

Welcome to the Legatum Center website, where you can learn more about how our Center is promoting innovation and entrepreneurship in low-income countries. Established in 2007 with a generous $50 million gift from Legatum, a global investment firm, our Center runs a competitive Fellowship program to prepare MIT students to create enterprises in developing countries. Our current and future Fellows seek to implement for-profit businesses that empower ordinary citizens and virally spread prosperity and development.

 


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  • Legatum Center's Launch Conference
  • Legatum Center’s Iqbal Quadir and Michael Maltese pause for pictures with 5 Nobel Laureates in Economics.
  • Iqbal Quadir interviewing Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson

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Videos

  • Video profile of Iqbal Quadir
  • TED TALK “The Power of the Mobile Phone to End Poverty”
  • GSMA MobileWorld Congress, February 2008

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Featured Content

Foreign Aid and Bad Government

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Iqbal Quadir writes about how development is most effective by aiding entrepreneurs.

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Communication Breakdown

Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, debate the merits of technology in the developing world.

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It hurts to fund governments

Iqbal Quadir writes about the lack of progress being made in attaining the UN Millenium Development Goals.

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No point reinventing the wheel

Article in African Business discusses Legatum Center and its inaugural conference.

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Iqbal Quadir Upends Development

The Legatum Center at MIT, Quadir’s latest brainchild, provides a ground-breaking approach to development studies.

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Feb 01, 2004article

Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: The Loan Ranger

Iqbal Quadir proposes a novel approach to addressing international trade imbalances.

Mar 24, 2008article

A bottom-up plan to turn Bangladesh's economy upside-down

Legatum Center Director cultivating a “new generation of bottom-up believers.”
 

May 17, 2009audio

BBC interview with Iqbal Quadir on entrepreneurship and microfinance

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