DOHA: HEC Paris hosted the 2015 European Foundation for Management Development’s (EFMD) Middle East and North Africa Conference as leading academicians from the region and beyond emphasised the importance of management education throughout the three-day event in management education.
Conducted at the HEC Paris premises at Tornado Tower in Doha, the conference was chaired by Professor Laoucine Kerbache, Dean & CEO, HEC Paris in Qatar. Under the main theme ‘Building Dynamic Networks and Partnerships for the Region’, more than 50 Deans, Directors of Programmes and Executives from Business Schools and NGOs, actively participated in the discussions and shared valuable experiences and practices in the region.
The ceremony was introduced by Eric Chevallier, Ambassador of France to Qatar, in the presence of Fahad Al Qahtani, Group Executive Director, Qatar Foundation. The event’s line-up of speakers included Everette E. Dennis, Dean of NorthWestern University in Qatar; Karim Seghir, Dean, School of Business, American University in Cairo; Robert Grosse, Dean, School of Business Administration, American University of Sharjah; Amol Dani, Chief Operating Officer, Georgetown University in Qatar, and Christian Delporte, Associate Director Quality Services, EFMD.
“We have been privileged to have had such a distinguished line-up of speakers who all shared invaluable and constructive insights on how to enhance management education within a fast competitive changing global world. The 2015 EFMD MENA conference addressed the theme of “Building networks and partnerships for the Middle East and North Africa region”, Professor Kerbache said.
“I thank all the participants who are deans and directors of business schools as well as actors of the management education eco-system including representatives from the corporate world for making this conference such a huge success. Also, I thank the EFMD for putting their trust in HEC Paris and providing us with this opportunity to host this international conference.”
The Peninsula
