Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) today named Darius Teter to serve as the new executive director of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, known as Stanford Seed. Led by Stanford GSB with university-wide support, Seed seeks to promote global economic prosperity by taking the GSB’s signature leadership and innovation training to aspiring entrepreneurs and senior business professionals in developing economies. Launched initially in Accra, Ghana, in 2011, Seed expanded east in Africa to Nairobi, Kenya, in 2016. Then, just last month, Stanford GSB announced its plans to expand the program farther, to Chennai, India. Teter takes the helm at an exciting time for a program poised for continued growth and expansion.
Teter brings a range of international development experience to the role. He comes to Stanford Seed from Oxfam America, where as vice president of global programs he oversaw the organization’s humanitarian response team and regional development programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as research, learning, and evaluation. Before that, he also developed expertise in financing large-scale infrastructure projects for both the Asian Development Bank and independent U.S. government foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corporation.
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