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May 2010
Ashoka World Social Innovation
Discussant: Market-Based Solutions
Cairo EGYPT

September 8, 2009
IEC Broadband World Forum Europe, co-sponsored by Marconi Society
Symposium Moderator: How Telecommunications Can Combat World Poverty
Paris FRANCE

May 24-26, 2009
M-Banking: Balancing Innovation and Regulation
Moderator: Mobile Financial Services and Branchless Banking Agents
Fletcher School and Kenya School of Monetary Studies
Nairobi KENYA

May 22, 2009
TIECon East (The Indus Entpreprenuers)
Panelist: ICT & Development
Boston MA

April 16, 2009
Marconi Society Gala Award Dinner
New York, New York

April 4, 2009
Harvard Kennedy School
International Development Conference
Panelist: The Mobile Revolution & Development
Cambridge MA

April 3, 2009
University of Pennsylvania
3rd Annual Undergraduate Microfinance Conference
Panelist: Technology and Microfinance
Philadelphia PA

March 26-28, 2009
Microfinance from Below: The Power of Savings and Savings Groups in Frontier Economies
The Fletcher School
Medford, MA

February 18-21, 2009
GSMA Mobile World Congress
Mobile Money for the Unbanked Working Group
Barcelona SPAIN

August 21, 2008
Tennessee State Capitol Nashville TN
Introduction of TracFone’s Safelink http://www.safelinkwireless.com

April 11-13, 2008
Knowledge Globalization Conference
Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University
Boston, MA
“Empowering the poor with cell phones” (with Iqbal Quadir)
http://www.kglobal.org/

November 2007
Parker Lecture Series
Pollard Memorial Library
Lowell MA
Connecting the world’s poor to the global economy

November 2007
H. J. Heinz III School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA
afternoon and evening presentations

June 1, 2007
Borders Bookstore
Boston, MA
Lunchtime talk show and book signing with host Mel Robbins
511 Bolyston St. (corner Newbury)

May 17, 2007
Free Public Library
Newton, MA

May 3, 2007
Tapei Economic and Cultural Office
New York, NY
“Private Enterprise vs. Aid in Development”

April 24, 2007
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Medford, MA
“The Impact of Technology on Development”

April 19, 2007
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Chicago, IL
Invited speaker for Young Professionals Club
The James Hotel
Audio: Connecting the World’s Poor to the Global Economy

April 19, 2007
Google Campus
Chicago, IL
Discussion and signing

April 18-19, 2007
Bread for Hunger
Chicago, IL
Dinner and luncheon speaker

March 29, 2007, 7:00-8:30pm
Baker Books
Dartmouth, MA
Discussion and signing

March 6, 2007
World Bank
Washington, DC
Luncheon speaker

February 23, 2007
Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business
Hanover, NH
“Business Sustainability Initiative” and book signing

February 7, 2007
Harvard Coop
Cambridge MA
Discussion and signing

February 14, 2007
GSMA Development Fund Conference
Barcelona, Spain
Telecom Ministers and Regulators Forum

February 16, 2007
Columbia University
New York, NY
Panelist on “Energy, Environment and Infrastructure” at Columbia’s conference “Philanthropy, Profits and Progress: The Role of the Private Actors in International Development”

February 21, 2007
Aspen Institute
Washington, DC
Communications & Society “Roundtable Luncheon” with Iqbal Quadir. Aired on CSPAN’s BookTV on March 17, 2007

January 29, 2007, 5:30-7:00pm
Denver World Affairs Council
Denver, CO
Brown Palace Hotel

January 28, 2007
Elliott Bay Book Company
Seattle, WA
Bookstore signing

October 13-15, 2006
The Evian Group (Plenary XI)
Montreux, Switzerland
Panelist on “Bottom-Up Growth & Development: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Developing Countries” at the conference “The Grave Crisis of Globalization: How Can We Regenerate the Momentum”