Steven R. Koltai

Steven Koltai is a hybrid business person/public policy maker. He had a 30 yr career in finance, consulting, entertainment (ten years at Warner Bros as head of strategy) and several entrepreneurial ventures. Steven then became the first Senior Advisor for Entrepreneurship at the US Department of State under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton where he created the Global Entrepreneurship Program which was a program to bolster entrepreneurship - and job creation - in Muslim majority countries. Steven continues to work as an advocate for entrepreneurship development in emerging markets. He is the author of "Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a startup culture for security and development" published by Brookings Institution Press 2016.