1. Iqbal Z Quadir is a Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur.
14 Facts About Iqbal Quadir
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Iqbal Quadir is the brother of Bangladeshi-American entrepreneur and artist Kamal Quadir.
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Iqbal Z Quadir was born in Jessore, Bangladesh, and completed his Secondary School Certificate at Jhenidah Cadet College.
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Between 1993 and 1997, Iqbal Quadir founded Grameenphone in Bangladesh to provide universal access to telephone services and to increase self-employment opportunities for its rural population.
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Iqbal Quadir spent four years as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, teaching about the impact of technologies in the politics of developing countries.
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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 earned his Secondary School Certificate from Jhenidah Cadet College, Bangladesh.
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From 1993 onward, Iqbal Quadir focused on universal access to digital telephone service in Bangladesh and increasing self-employment opportunities for its rural poor.
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Iqbal Quadir attracted these investors with 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 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 on 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 elected 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.