"Entrepreneur for the World" Award Honours Four International Personalities
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The "Entrepreneur for the World" Award is being granted annually by the World Entrepreneurship Forum to an entrepreneur, a social entrepreneur, an academic expert, and a politician to highlight their remarkable entrepreneurial success and their commitment to the society.
Bert Twaalfhoven received the "Entrepreneur for the World" in the category Expert, which awards an academic or non-academic leader whose research, studies, projects... have contributed to improve and disseminate knowledge of entrepreneurship globally.
Fazle Hasan Abed received the "Entrepreneur for the World" in the category Social Entrepreneur, This award is granted to a personality who has greatly improved the life of the community.
Fazle Hasan Abed initiated the BRAC (
Fazle Hasan Abed has been honoured with many international awards: the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership; Unicef's
Kazuo Inamori received the "Entrepreneur for the World" in the category Entrepreneur. This award is granted to a personality who created wealth for the society.
He established the non-profit Inamori Foundation and the
As President of Seiwajyuku, Inamori teaches his management philosophy to more than 5,000 business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Finally,
Robinson served as the seventh and first female, President of
Robinson's most recent project is Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative, which fosters equitable trade and decent work, promotes the right to health and more human migration policies, works to strengthen women's leadership and encourage corporate responsibility.
She received numerous prizes: in 1997, she was one of the two winners of the North-South Prize; in 2006 she was awarded the Social Science Principes de Asturias Prize.
About the World Entrepreneurship Forum
Founded at the initiative of EMLYON Business School and KPMG, the World Entrepreneurship Forum benefits from the high patronage of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic.
It is the first worldwide think tank dedicated to entrepreneurs, creators of wealth and social justice. It gathers annually more than 100 members.
For further information: http://www.world-entrepreneurship-forum.com; Press contact: Daniela Sutan, +33-(0)4-78-33-70-37, [email protected]
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