Leadership Team
Iqbal Z. Quadir, Founder and Director
Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. In the 1990s, Quadir founded GrameenPhone, which provides effective telephone access throughout Bangladesh.
Michael F. Maltese, Managing Director
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.
Staff
Moira Finicane, Strategic Partnerships and Recruitment Coordinator
Moira Finicane brings experience in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, including a lifetime of working in her family's three businesses, and three years experience as financial coordinator and board member for Harvard University's largest non-profit student-run program, Strong Women Strong Girls. Finicane is a Harvard University graduate, cum laude in economics.
Liz Henry, Press and Communications Manager
Liz Henry has several years of experience in Latin America where she served as country director for an education-sector NGO and taught university-level language courses. She has worked in education in the U.S. and France and holds a secondary teaching license. With a master's and bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Middlebury College, she is fluent in Spanish and French and proficient in Portuguese.
Anna Omura, Operations Manager
Anna Omura is the Operations Manager at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. Omura lived in West Africa where she was a natural resource management extension agent for the Peace Corps. Her work there included identifying and implementing environmental and entrepreneurial projects with farmers in rural communities. Previously Omura worked for the Good Deed Foundation and was a founding partner in Breaking the Mold Candle Company. Omura is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, where she studied public relations.
Abigail Rich, Marketing Associate
Abigail Rich came to the Legatum Center as a Summer Fellow with New Sector Alliance, a non-profit consulting firm. She has previously worked with the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, the Chicago Artists' Coalition, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Phi Beta Kappa in art history and anthropology.
Aduke Thelwell, Consultant for Special Projects
Aduke Thelwell has worked as a consultant to two Indian microfinance institutions and served as board fellow for a Boston-based educational nonprofit. Prior to her experience in social enterprise, she spent three years in Structured Finance at Goldman Sachs and a year at NERA Economic Consulting. Thelwell was a Morgan Stanley Fellow at Harvard Business School and graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College.
