Building a Better Haiti by Investing in Haitians

Catherine Lainé is Deputy Director of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG). A Haitian American social entrepreneur who transitioned into international development from academic pursuits in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Oxford University, Lainé is passionate about finding sustainable business solutions to the problems facing the world's poor. Prior to her work at AIDG, she ran a private media consultancy for nonprofits and small businesses on how to leverage open-source technology for more effective communications. Fast Company magazine recently named her one of five social capitalists to watch in 2010.