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Global Ideas Institute
2011-12 Expert Speaker Series
Dr. Anita M. McGahan | Dr. Yu-Ling Cheng | Ms. Ellie Avishai | Dr. Dilip Soman | Dr. Stanley Zlotkin | Dr. Murray Metcalfe | Dr. Joseph Wong
New Models for Financing Innovative
Technologies and Entrepreneurship
in the Global South
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Munk School of Global Affairs, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Trinity College 2nd Floor, Seeley Hall
Dr. Murray Metcalfe
Professor, Globalization, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering,
University of Toronto
The development of the Global South in the twenty-fi rst century
will look nothing like what twentieth-century models based on
foreign aid and multilateral agencies envisioned. Instead, real
development will stem from two things: technological innovation
and local entrepreneurship. The current trickle of financial
support for these new approaches will rapidly expand as
twentieth-century models of aid are abandoned. What are the
cutting edge examples of this trend, and what will propel them
forward?
Murray Metcalfe is Professor of Globalization in the Faculty
of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto.
He holds a BASc in Industrial Engineering from the University
of Toronto and an MS and PhD in Engineering–Economic Systems
from Stanford University. He began his professional career at
McKinsey & Company, the management consulting firm, and
then spent over twenty years in the venture capital industry in
the United States before returning to academia in 2008. In the spring of 2008 he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of International Development Engineering at the Tokyo Institute
of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Centre for Global
Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Metcalfe also
serves as a senior advisor in the private equity area at Lee
Munder Capital Group, an investment management firm in
Boston. He is involved in a number of not-for-profits in the areas
of international development and social entrepreneurship.
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