Iyad Malas, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim and a member of the YPO Levant and YPO Emirates Chapters, tells CNBC’s Access: Middle East that people in the Middle East are overlooking industries where there are a lot of job opportunities, as they don’t believe they offer good career prospects.

Abdul Malik Al-Jaber, founder and chairman of MENA Apps and a member of the YPO Palestine Chapter, speaks to CNBC’s Access: Middle East about how the Middle East needs to improve its regulatory framework and modify its culture to allow young people to create their own businesses.

Badr Jafar, CEO of Crescent Enterprises and a member of the YPO Emirates Chapter, speaks to CNBC’s Access: Middle East about how the lack of investment in entrepreneurship, the poor access to capital by SMEs and the red tape involved in setting up a business in the Arab World are slowing youth employment in the region.

CNBC’s Access: Middle East interviews several YPO members from the Middle East North Africa Region about talent, jobs and entrepreneurship in the area at the 2013 Global Leadership Summit in Istanbul.

Kevin McKenzie, senior partner of RiverWest Capital and a member of the YPO Pan Asia Chapter, writes a blog for cnbc.com about the challenges and successes he experienced when investing in Myanmar.

J. French Hill, founder and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp. and a member of the WPO Arkansas Chapter, writes a blog for cnbc.com about Hungary and Poland and their success transitioning from communist politics and socialist economics and embracing western political and liberal market economics.

Steve Leveen, co-founder and CEO of Levenger and a member of the WPO Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Chapter, writes a blog for cnbc.com about the future of conscious capitalism.

Nicholas Lois, managing director at Lois Builders and a member of the YPO Cyprus Chapter, talks to CNBC Europe’s Squawk Box about how a potential bank run in Cyprus would affect the country and his business.