• Iqbal Quadir
• Founder, GrameenPhone

• Speaking at TEDGlobal 2005
• July 2005
• Oxford

The power of the mobile phone to end poverty: Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.