Global Education Initiative MENA Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education 2010

On 24 October 2010, on the occasion of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Marrakech, Morocco, the Steering Board of the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative, the MENA Advisory Group and other leaders from business, government, academia, international organizations and civil society gathered for a private high-level roundtable meeting on entrepreneurship education. The roundtable outcomes included a series of recommendations and the Manifesto for Creating Jobs and Economic Growth in MENA through Entrepreneurship and 21st Century Skills. This report provides a summary of the discussions and outcomes of the MENA Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education, organized by the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI), as well as background research on the MENA region.