"Entrepreneur for the World" Award Honours Four International Personalities

LYON, France, November 20 - Four international personalities have been hounoured with the
"Entrepreneur for the World" Award on November 19th during the World
Entrepreneurship Forum, (Lyon France, November 18-21st, 2009).

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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.

Dr. Twaalfhoven defines what is often described as a "serial
entrepreneur". Over the past 40 year years, he has founded 51 high tech
companies in 11 countries, cooperating with 28 universities.

Dr. Twaalfhoven is active in many international entrepreneurship
university networks: he founded the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship
Research (EFER); initiated the EASDAQ (European Association of Securities
Dealers Automated Quotation). In 2001, he received the Harvard Business
School Alumni Achievement Award, which is the highest honor conferred by the
school.

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 (Bangladesh Rural Advancement
Committee), the largest non-government development organisations in the
world. He is also one of the major promoters of micro-credit as a way to get
poor people out of the misery and the dependency.

Fazle Hasan Abed has been honoured with many international awards: the
Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership; Unicef's Maurice Pate Award;
Olof Palme Award; Gates Award for Global Health; Henry R. Kravis Prize in
Leadership.

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.

Mr. Inamori founded Kyocera Corporation and KDDI Corporation, two
business leaders in Japan.

He established the non-profit Inamori Foundation and the Kyoto Prize, an
international award that recognizes individuals and groups worldwide who have
made outstanding contributions to the betterment of the global community and
humankind.

As President of Seiwajyuku, Inamori teaches his management philosophy to
more than 5,000 business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Finally, Mary Robinson has been awarded the "Entrepreneur for the World"
Award, in the category Politician. This award is granted to a personality who
has initiated policies that encouraged the development of entrepreneurial
attitudes in society through legal, political, administrative or economic
actions.

Robinson served as the seventh and first female, President of Ireland;
and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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 more information: www.world-entrepreneurship-forum.com.

    Press contact:

    Daniela Sutan
    +33-(0)4-78-33-70-37
    sutan@em-lyon.com

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Press contact: Daniela Sutan, +33-(0)4-78-33-70-37, sutan at em-lyon.com