American leadership can still be effective through a model of development that uses US entrepreneurial energy to find sources of innovation that solve problems in emerging markets, USAID administrator Rajiv Shah told a Duke audience Thursday.
Shah delivered the annual Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, presented by the Sanford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by Duke's Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, and the Duke Global Health Institute. (See the full speech in the video below.)
Shah cited the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke, which supports new health care practices in developing countries and engages Duke students, faculty and medical practitioners in solving problems in cooperation with partners in those countries.
During the day, Shah met with Duke students to discuss development issues and spoke with President Richard H. Brodhead and other university faculty and administrators about potential collaborations with USAID. (Pictured above.)
Below, Shah and Alex Dehgan, the science and technology adviser to USAID, meet with Duke public policy students for lunch Thursday.
Photos by Les Todd and Megan Morr/Duke University Photography
