Linda Rottenberg will discuss the mission for Endeavor, the unique challenges of running an entrepreneurial non-profit and how and where she sees environmental challenges fitting into entrepreneurial activities in emerging markets. She will be introduced to speak by Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy Dan Esty.

Recently named as "One of America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report and by Time magazine as "One of the 100 Innovators for the 21st Century", Linda Rottenberg has been at the forefront of promoting and enabling entrepreneurship around the world. Endeavor's mission is to foster the growth of entrepreneurs in developing countries and provide intensive strategic and management support, inspiring the next generation of innovators in countries lacking a culture of entrepreneurship.

Since 1997, Linda has pioneered a new model for development that engages the private sector in mentoring and advising the most promising-yet-undiscovered entrepreneurs in Latin America, Egypt, India, Jordan, Turkey, and South Africa. After rigorously screening and selecting over 350 emerging-market entrepreneurs to date, Endeavor has helped them generate more than 90,000 high-quality jobs and, in 2007 alone, $2.5 billion in revenues.

Free and Open to the Public, Reception to FollowOrganized By: Center for Business and the Environment at Yale