Dr. Taddy Blecher

Dr. Taddy Blecher is the CEO of the Community and Individual Development Association and the Maharishi Institute, which facilitates university education for unemployed youth from 11 countries in Africa. He also founded the Imvula Educational Empowerment Fund and, with the Rockefeller Foundation, started the Impact Sourcing Academy and Invincible Outsourcing, which provides theoretical and practical training in the business process outsourcing sector to unemployed youth, thereby bringing them into the economy. Dr. Blecher is also the creator of the E3 initiative (Entrepreneurship, Employ ability, Education) for the national Department of Basic Education in South Africa. As a direct result of his work, over nearly 20,000 South Africans have been educated post-secondary school, found employment, and moved out of poverty into a more successful life.