Center For International Development

CID Student Ambassador Hubert Wu interviews Steven Koltai, Managing Director of Koltai & Company, and Brookings Guest Scholar on Governance Studies. In his recently launched book "Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Start-up Culture for Security and Development" Steven makes the case for government investment in entrepreneurship as a way to foster job creation and tackle security and development issues. Interview recorded on March 3rd, 2017. About the speaker: Steven Koltai is an expert on international entrepreneurship ecosystem development. He is currently Managing Director of Koltai & Company, an entrepreneurship program development consultancy. Most recently, he was Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship at the US Department of State where he created and managed the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP), focused primarily in job creation via entrepreneurship in Muslim majority countries. Previously, Steven has 30 years of business experience as an investment banker (Salomon Brothers), managemen