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.
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.
Communication Breakdown
Iqbal Quadir and Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of One Laptop per Child, debate the merits of technology in the developing world.
It hurts to fund governments
Iqbal Quadir writes about the lack of progress being made in attaining the UN Millenium Development Goals.
No point reinventing the wheel
Article in African Business discusses Legatum Center and its inaugural conference.
Iqbal Quadir Upends Development
The Legatum Center at MIT, Quadir’s latest brainchild, provides a ground-breaking approach to development studies.
