Iqbal Z Quadir is an entrepreneur and promoter of the role of entrepreneurship and innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries.
11 Facts About Iqbal Quadir
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Iqbal Quadir has taught at Harvard Kennedy School and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Iqbal Quadir moved to the United States in 1976 and later became a naturalized US citizen.
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Iqbal Quadir passed his Secondary School Certificate from Jhenidah Cadet College, Bangladesh.
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From 1993 on, Iqbal Quadir changed his focus to his underlying aspiration, to create universal access to digital telephone service in Bangladesh and to increase self-employment opportunities for its rural poor.
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Iqbal Quadir attracted these investors by complementing his vision of connecting all of Bangladesh with a practical distribution scheme whereby village entrepreneurs, backed by micro-loans, could retail telephone services to their surrounding communities.
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Iqbal Quadir coined the phrase "connectivity is productivity" to explain the unique impact of Information Communication Technologies, particularly mobile telephones, in improving economic efficiency.
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From 2001 to 2005, Iqbal Quadir served as a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School and taught graduate-level courses of technology in developing countries.
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Iqbal Quadir coined the phrase invisible leg to describe how technological innovations change economies in terms of the distribution of economic and political influence.
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In 1999, Iqbal Quadir was selected Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Iqbal Quadir appeared on CNN and PBS and was profiled in feature articles in the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The Economist, and The New York Times, and in several books.