Startup Nations Ministerial

The Startup Nations Ministerial guides government leaders through a high-level deep-dive on how the public sector can better encourage more new and young businesses to start and grow. Participating governments from across the development spectrum engage in dialogue around new policy approaches and experiments to increase economic growth and job creation through a vibrant entrepreneurial economy. 

Participants in the Startup Nations Ministerial are national government ministers with full or partial jurisdiction over policies to support entrepreneurs and their officially designated envoys or heads of agencies with entrepreneurship-specific authority.

The Ministerial convened government representatives from Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, South Africa, The Gambia, Uruguay, Zambia, Zimbabwe, among others. 

It also featured contributions from GEN Knowledge Partners, including:

  • Jon Potter, Head of Entrepreneurship Policy Unit, OECD
  • Annalisa Primi, Head of Economic and Transformation Division, OECD Development Centre
  • Tom Sullivan,  Vice President of Small Business Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • JF Gauthier, Founder & CEO, Startup Genome