Glenn Yago
Director, Capital Studies, Milken Institute
Glenn Yago is Director of Capital Studies at the Milken Institute and an authority on financial innovations, capital markets, emerging markets and environmental finance. He focuses on the innovative use of financial instruments to solve longstanding social, environmental and economic development challenges. His work has contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets and entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world. He is a recipient of the 2002 Gleitsman Foundation Award of Achievement for social change. Yago served as professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and has taught at Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center-Herzliya. He is the author of five books, including Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions (Kluwer) and Beyond Junk Bonds (Oxford University Press); and co-editor of the Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth (Springer). His opinions have appeared in The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal. Yago received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
