Bangladesh: The Booster Engine

Iqbal Z. Quadir is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He founded Grameenphone Limited in Bangladesh in the 1990s, an enterprise that now serves 80 million mobile phone subscribers. In 2007, he founded and directed the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. As an MIT professor of practice, Quadir taught and mentored about 200 MIT students to pursue entrepreneurial careers in low-income countries. Since 2001, Quadir has taught at Harvard and MIT and has lectured at numerous other universities.