Michael F. Maltese, Managing Director

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Michael F. Maltese is the Managing Director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. Maltese joined MIT in 2006 as a Visiting Scholar, and in 2007 he was appointed Lecturer at the Institute. 

Maltese is currently focusing on entrepreneurial innovations in mobile healthcare in low-income countries.  He has served on the program committees of the past two World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) conferences, which convened to investigate the role of mobile technologies in development, in Maputo, Mozambique (2009), and São Paulo, Brazil (2008). 

Previously, Maltese worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Fair Isaac Corporation, and on the research staff of Princeton University, where he was a Fellow of Wilson College and served as a co-investigator for a World Health Organization project investigating the effects of water development projects on select tropical diseases. In 2007, he founded Global Medical Knowledge, Inc., an organization that leverages technology to enhance medical training in developing countries. He has written articles and reviews in the British Medical Journal, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Acta Tropica, International Herald Tribune, Columbia Journal of European Law, Verdict and Yale Political Quarterly. Maltese studied government at Harvard and law and history at Oxford, where he served on the law review editorial board.

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Jack Hennessy takes time to answer questions from Legatum Fellow, Robin Bartling. Photo from left to right: Jack Hennessy, Michael Maltese, Robin Bartling and Iqbal Quadir (sitting).

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