Elena Panaritis, property rights expert, social entrepreneur and action leader speaks at MIT Legatum Center

Online, September 11, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Elena Panaritis, property rights expert, institutional economist, action leader, and social entrepreneur has been chosen to speak to MIT Legatum Center Fellows during Orientation for up-and-coming social entrepreneurs.
Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), is an institutional economist and social entrepreneur. Ms. Panaritis is also one of the pioneers of "triple-bottom-line" social entrepreneurship. She founded Panel Group, a specialized advisory group that provides counsel and technical expertise in transforming informality (illiquid real assets). The firm leverages Ms. Panaritis' methodology and knowledge in creating stable property rights systems around the world, and applies reform techniques funded entirely through private investment. The reforms undertaken by key stakeholders produce significant social, environmental, and financial returns.

The event is closed to the media.

ABOUT THE LEGATUM CENTER
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship was founded on the belief that economic progress and good governance in low-income countries emerge from entrepreneurship and innovations that empower ordinary citizens.
The Center was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 through a structured gift of $50 million from Legatum, a global investment firm.

The Center administers programs and convenes events that promote and shape discourse on bottom-up development. Led by Iqbal Z. Quadir, founder of Grameenphone and Emergence BioEnergy, the Center runs a highly competitive fellowship program for MIT graduate students who intend to launch enterprises in low-income countries. In addition, the Center convenes an annual conference, hosts lectures, and supports teams of enterprising men and women at MIT who are passionate about starting viable businesses
in the developing world.