Jonathan Starr is the founder of Flagg Street Capital. Prior to founding Flagg Street Capital, he worked as an analyst at SAB Capital and Blavin and Company, and as a Research Associate within the Taxable Bond Division at Fidelity Investments. Jonathan Starr closed Flagg Street Capital and in 2009 opened the
Abaarso School of Science and Technology in Somaliland with his personal finances. His work in
Somaliland
Somaliland,; ar, صوماليلاند ', ' officially the Republic of Somaliland,, ar, جمهورية صوماليلاند, link=no ''Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd'' is a ''de facto'' sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still conside ...
has been written about in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, and the Christian Science Monitor. Jonathan is a graduate of Worcester Academy.
''It Takes a School''
''It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State''
is Jonathan Starr's story of leaving the financial world to found the
Abaarso School of Science and Technology. The book was published on February 7, 2017, by
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Currently, the company publishes in the fields ...
.
See also
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Somalia
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List of schools in Somalia
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American businesspeople
Emory University alumni
People from Worcester, Massachusetts