MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship careers

At the Legatum Center, we empower the MIT community to accelerate social and economic progress across the developing world through innovation-driven entrepreneurship (IDE). To realize this mission, the Center administers a series of action-oriented activities, including:

- A competitive Fellowship program for incoming and current MIT students who have demonstrated a commitment to building and scaling impact in the developing world through their entrepreneurial ventures.
- Seed grants for students looking to explore and experience IDE opportunities in the field.
- An annual series of events (including an anchor conference and monthly speaker events) to promote and shape discourse on bottom-up development and system change through IDE.

The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 through a multi-million dollar gift from Legatum Group, a global investment firm.