Iqbal Quadir | World Bank Institute (WBI)

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Iqbal Quadir

Massachussets Institute of Technology

Prof. Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and Professor of the Practice of Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. Earlier in his career, he worked as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington, DC. Quadir founded Grameenphone, which provides effective telephone access throughout Bangladesh and is often credited as having been the earliest observer of the potential for mobile phones to transform low-income countries.

Read his article on Mobile Technology: One Core Lesson, Many Possible Solutions.

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