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EVENT
Fireside Chat with Matt Clifford (Entrepreneur First)
 | Thursday, April 29, 2021
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Sign up for the Zoom webinar here after registering - https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gncsVFt1QmKD_dMwDfUBfw
Join us for a fireside chat with Matt Clifford (co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, the world's leading talent investor) covering the story behind EF and the role of entrepreneurship in a post-COVID recovery. This event will be moderated by Dr. Phil Budden (Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan) and introduced by Professor Fiona Murray (Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion at MIT Sloan), both experts in regional innovation ecosystems.
Matt Clifford is co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, which he started with Alice Bentinck in 2011. He sits on the board of Code First Girls, which he co-founded in 2013 to teach young women how to code, as well as the Kennedy Memorial Trust and Innovate UK. Matt started his career at McKinsey & Co. and holds degrees from Cambridge and MIT, where he was a Kennedy Scholar. He was awarded an MBE for services to business in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours. He writes a weekly newsletter, Thoughts In Between, on how the world got to be the way it is and how it's changing.
Phil Budden is a Senior Lecturer at MIT's Management School, in Sloan's TIES (Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic-management) Group, where he focuses on 'innovation-driven entrepreneurship' (IDE) and innovation ecosystems. Phil's approach combines academic, historical and real-world perspectives on how different stakeholders - including Entrepreneurs, Universities and 'Risk Capital' providers, alongside Corporate enterprises and Government policymakers - can all contribute to building successful innovation ecosystems. Phil holds a BA and MA in History from Lincoln College, the University of Oxford; an MA in History and Government from Cornell University; and a PhD (DPhil) in History and International Political Economy from the University of Oxford.
Fiona Murray is the Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship, and an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also the co-director of MIT's Innovation Initiative. She serves on the British Prime Minister's Council on Science and Technology and has been awarded a CBE for her services to innovation and entrepreneurship in the UK. Murray is an international expert on the transformation of investments in scientific and technical innovation into innovation-based entrepreneurship that drives jobs, wealth creation, and regional prosperity. Murray received her BA '89 and MA '90 from the University of Oxford in Chemistry. She subsequently moved to the United States and earned an AM '92 and PhD '96 from Harvard University in applied sciences.
Hosted by the British Business Club and the MIT-UK Program.
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