Role Models
The SEVEN Fund wishes to recognize the efforts of our friends and collaborators – role models within the enterprise solutions to poverty space. We invite you to learn more about these inspiring individuals and the work they are doing to end poverty.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda is the entrepreneur president.
- President Kagame’s website
- Fast Company Magazine’s Profile: Rwanda Rising
- President Kagame’s Op-Ed in Financial Times, Africa Has to Find Its Own Road to Prosperity
Former Minister of Finance for Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani made the transition from thought leader to direct leader.
- Dr. Ashraf Ghani’s website
- Institute for State Effectiveness, co-founded by Dr. Ghani
- Fixing Failed States, a recent book co-authored by Dr. Ghani
Author and former Goldman Sachs executive, Dambisa Moyo has the courage to express what many believe.
- Dr. Dambisa Moyo’s website
- Dead Aid, Dr. Moyo’s recent book
- Dr. Moyo interviewed by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
Luiz Ros and Dana Martin, leaders of the IDB's Opportunities for the Majority initiative, are entrepreneurs inside the multilateral system.
Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the IDB, is a pioneer of social equity though firm-level competitiveness.
Sir David King, the science advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair, sees enterprise solutions to climate change.
Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Grameen Phone in Bangladesh, walked the walk.
Legendary economist Paul Romer isn't satisfied by the laurels of the academy.
CEO Bob Mulroy sees corporate America's potential as a force for positive change in health care and eradicating poverty around the world.
Renowned genomics researcher and entrepreneur, Dr. Lee Silver of Princeton, will be part of Africa's first knowledge-based cluster of business and industry.
- Dr. Lee Silver at Princeton
- Dr. Lee Silver's website
- Challenging Nature, Dr. Silver's most recent book
Entrepreneurs Willa Shalit and A. Jim Heynen demonstrate how to make partnerships.
Sir John Marks Templeton was a pioneer of emerging market investments.
Author Michael Novak explores ideas at the intersection of business and faith.
Terry Neese, founder of the Institute for the Economic Empowerment of Women, builds training programs and market linkages supporting Afghan and Rwandan entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs create products, services and jobs. They expand economies, improve people's lives, provide employment (high and rising wages) and bring about competition. A competitive environment, in turn, gives rise to efficiency, meritocracy and further innovations and entrepreneurial drive.
The potent combination of entrepreneurship and technological innovation can forge an environment that is conducive to further enterprise, involving even government policy in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
