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GESF 2014 Plenary: Business Backs Education

This plenary will mark the launch of a major campaign with the Global Business Coalition for Education to rally the support of the private sector around education. As well as championing business engagement in education, the campaign will call on the private sector to double their spending on education by GESF 2015. The case for investment in education is overwhelming- A recent global survey of over 1,000 CEOs, almost 30 per cent said that talent constraints kept them from pursuing market opportunities. Similar studies have found that $1 invested in education today returns $53 in value to the employer at the start of a person's working years. Business provides an estimated US$683 million per year to support education in developing countries. While significant, the support for global health is estimated to be 16 times this. How can business lead the effort to put Education at the top of the global agenda, in line with Global Health and Climate Change? Moderator: Kate Silverton, BBC, UK H.E. Irina Bokova, Director General, UNESCO, France Majid Jafar, CEO, Crescent Petroleum, UAE Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-CEO, SAP, Germany Vikas Pota, CEO, Varkey GEMS Foundation, UK Announcement by Munira Mirza, Deputy Mayor of London, UK