Elizabeth A Duke: Fostering innovation in Community Development Finance Speech by Ms Elizabeth A Duke, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the 2011 Exploring Innovation Conference on Community Development Finance, St Louis, Missouri, 10 May 2011. *  *  *  Good morning.
It is a pleasure to be in St. Louis to open the third biennial Exploring Innovation Conference. The first Exploring Innovation conference was opened four years ago by Professor Andrew Hargadon, the Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of California, Davis and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.