Youth, women biggest winners of GES 2015

Delegates listen to US President Barack Obama during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi. (Photo: Andrew Kilonzi/Standard)

Nairobi, Kenya: It all began in Cairo in 2009 during a speech by US President Barack Obama in which he indicated that entrepreneurship would be on the forefront of his country’s engagement agenda with other countries.

In 2010, the U.S. hosted the first Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Washington, D.C. and it was subsequently hosted by Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Morocco.