Iqbal Quadir

Iqbal Quadir launched in 1997 Grameenphone, a company that now serves 55 million subscribers. His efforts also brought the Norwegian telephone company Telenor to the continent of Asia—where Telenor now serves nearly 200 million. In 2010, Quadir helped found bKash, which allows the people of Bangladesh to safely send and receive money via mobile devices. bKash currently serves 20 million subscribers and executes about a billion financial transactions annually in Bangladesh. Quadir has been promoting his philosophy in boardrooms and classrooms; in the world’s poorest and richest nations; as an author, editor, and speaker; and as the subject of newspaper, magazine, and book profiles. After teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School for four years, Quadir joined MIT in 2005. He founded The Legatum Center in 2007 where he trained 200 entrepreneurial MIT students to pursue their own ventures in low-income countries. He also co-founded and co-edits Innovations, a journal that has focused on entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges for the past decade.

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Pivotal digital

23.11.2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Iqbal Quadir will speak on how digital technologies, originally developed in high-income countries, can pivot low-income countries forward. Based on these technologies, he conceived, organized, and built successful commercial ventures that have economically lifted up millions in low-income countries. His lecture will contain insights that led to these ventures. He will also draw on his first-hand experience in implementing them and show how other new digital ventures continue to emerge in low-income countries empowering the average person. Follow live on 23rd November at 11:00 am CET at https://kapuscinskilectures.eu.

When: 23rd November 2015 at 11:00 am CET / 10:00 am GMT (check time around the world).

Where: Copenhagen Business School, Kilen, Kilevej 14A, Copenhagen

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