Press invitation: Price lecture with Hernando de Soto
Magdalena Andersson, Minister for Finance, will act as presenter of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2017. The award goes to Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, Peru. Magdalena Andersson and Hernando de Soto will both be part of a panel discussion following the prize lecture.De Soto is one of our most influential thinkers in entrepreneurship and economics. In 1999 The Time magazine chose him as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the 20th century. Then, President Bill Clinton called de Soto, in his opening
The 2017 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Hernando de Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), in Lima, Peru. The Global Award is the most prominent international award in entrepreneurship research with a prize sum of € 100,000. De Soto is awarded for developing a new understanding of how institutions underpin the economy as well as the role of property rights and entrepreneurship in transferring economic activity from the informal to the formal sector.Hernando de Soto has been a leading intellectual engaged in academic and public policy