Achieving Scale in Entrepreneurship

To support this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, the World Bank Group will host a workshop to highlight the efforts and challenges in supporting entrepreneurship in emerging markets and frontier countries. The main objective of this workshop is to bring together development partners, foundations, research institutions, IFC clients and practitioners to discuss the entrepreneurship landscape, share best practices on governance, challenges and impediments to ‘scaling-up’ successful enterprises in emerging markets, and identify solutions for entrepreneurs in frontier markets extrapolated from developed markets. 

Featured speakers:

• Iqbal Quadir, Director MIT Legatum Center
• Rachel Robbins, Vice President and General Counsel, IFC
• Robert Litan, Vice President, Research & Policy, Kauffman Foundation
• Leora Klapper, Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank
• Andrei Mikhnev, Sr. Private Sector Development Specialist, Regulatory Simplification, World Bank
• Philip Armstrong, Head, Global Corporate Governance Forum, IFC
• Marcel Malczewski, CEO, Bematech (via video)
• Teresa Barger, CEO, Cartica Capital
• Dirk Schlimm, Corporate Director & Governance Consultant, Jenoir Managemnt Consultants
• Marcos Vaena, IFC Program Manager SME Linkages Mozlink II
• Rogerio Samo Gudo, CEO Escopil International, IFC Client in Mozambique