A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif
MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship
10 episodes
1 month ago
In this episode of A Legacy of Purpose, Executive Director Dina H. Sherif is joined by Noor Sweid, Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, former Chief Investment Officer of The Dubai Future Foundation, and the first woman to lead an IPO in the MENA region. With a career spanning biotechnology, government innovation, and now one of the most active venture capital firms in emerging markets, Noor shares her candid thoughts on what conviction looks like in the face of uncertainty, why c...
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In this episode of A Legacy of Purpose, Executive Director Dina H. Sherif is joined by Noor Sweid, Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, former Chief Investment Officer of The Dubai Future Foundation, and the first woman to lead an IPO in the MENA region. With a career spanning biotechnology, government innovation, and now one of the most active venture capital firms in emerging markets, Noor shares her candid thoughts on what conviction looks like in the face of uncertainty, why c...
Entrepreneurship as a Form of Resistance: A Conversation with Ahmed Zahran of KarmSolar
A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif
1 hour 3 minutes
8 months ago
Entrepreneurship as a Form of Resistance: A Conversation with Ahmed Zahran of KarmSolar
In this episode of A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif, we sit down with Ahmed Zahran, CEO of KarmSolar and 2024 Foundry Fellow at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. What started as a company born out of frustration and necessity has now become one of Egypt’s leading solar energy firms, transforming the way power is generated and distributed in the region. Ahmed shares his journey from working in corporate energy to being forced out of a job—an ...
A Legacy of Purpose: Conversations with Dina H. Sherif
In this episode of A Legacy of Purpose, Executive Director Dina H. Sherif is joined by Noor Sweid, Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures, former Chief Investment Officer of The Dubai Future Foundation, and the first woman to lead an IPO in the MENA region. With a career spanning biotechnology, government innovation, and now one of the most active venture capital firms in emerging markets, Noor shares her candid thoughts on what conviction looks like in the face of uncertainty, why c...
