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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Wilkes University President Patrick Leahy will be speaking at the United Nations on May 11. He is among those invited to talk at the International Council on Small Business High Level Knowledge Summit.</p><p>The bureaucratic lingo doesn&#8217;t end there. The summit is being held to mark the adoption of a U.N. resolution establishing the &#8220;Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise International Day (MSME Day)&#8221; according to a media release.</p><p>Leahy tried to simplify, suggesting the &#8220;MSME&#8221; can generally be replaced by &#8220;entrepreneurship,&#8221; though he suspects that word &#8220;isn&#8217;t internationally as understood as it is in America.&#8221;</p><p>The U.N. passed a resolution making June 27 MSME Day, Leahy said, and the summit is intended &#8220;to celebrate that fact.&#8221; He is one of about 15 people invited to talk about &#8220;the importance of small- and medium-sized enterprises.&#8221;</p><p>The jargon may seem a mouthful, but the numbers behind it are important. The release notes that micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises &#8220;account for up to 45 percent of total employment, and up to 33 percent of national income in emerging economies.&#8221;</p><p>And the &#8220;emerging&#8221; part is going to create a big demand. The release notes that &#8220;the World Bank estimates about 600 million jobs will be needed in the next 15 years, especially in Asia and Africa.&#8221;</p><p>Wilkes has a bit of an in with the International Council for Small Business: University Professor Jeff Alves, former dean of the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, served as president of the council in 2013-14.</p><p>Leahy said it&#8217;s a privilege to be invited to speak at the summit. It&#8217;s not as big a deal as speaking before the general assembly, but Wilkes is apparently one of only &#8220;two or three American Universities invited, and all have burnished their credentials around the teaching of entrepreneurship and the improvement of our communities. It&#8217;s a real honor.&#8221; Some students well get to go to the summit as well, he said.</p><p>Wilkes has been developing programs designed to support business start ups, including the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and its Enterprise Center, the Small Business Development Center, the Family Business Alliance and the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mark Guydish</p><p>mguydish@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mark Guydish at 570-991-6112 or on Twitter @TLMarkGuydish</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Wilkes University President among those invited to speak at U.N.