He is the co-founder and co-editor of Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. He is also author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, April 2012). He was the organizer of the Presidents’ Symposium on The Future of Collegiate Education held at the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities in June 2011 and formed part of the founding team for AshokaUOnline in summer 2012. He is an adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative and served as a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation during the 2011-212 academic year. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and a BA in political science from Yale University.