Cass Business School, London, is hosting its inaugural Dubai Symposium from May 2-6 which will give the School’s EMBA students an opportunity to learn from leading business leaders about the challenges and benefits of doing business in the region. It also provides a perfect opportunity for the 80 London-based students in attendance to network with almost 400 alumni based in Dubai and the surrounding region.
The week-long Dubai Symposium allows the Cass students to learn about the Dubai market first-hand through an intensive array of lectures and discussions with leading business representatives.
Headlining the guest speaker line-up for the Symposium is Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Chairman, Easygroup, who will be discussing entrepreneurship in a recession and sharing his own career experiences. Other guest speakers include Abdulla Bin Sougat, Chief Executive Officer of DIFC Lifestyle Group, Paul Koster, CFO of the Dubai Financial Services Authority; Adel Lootah, Executive Director Dubai Property Society, Dr Deomos Petropoulous from Ocean Challenge.
Cass is one of the top-ranked business schools in Europe. Its Executive EMBA programme is ranked 13th in the world by the Financial Times.The School has been offering a Dubai based EMBA for almost two years. The programme is a flexible, part-time programme, delivered in collaboration with the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Centre of Excellence, for committed and ambitious managers in the Gulf, the Middle East and the surrounding regions who want to accelerate their career development while remaining in full-time employment. Cass Business School’s programmes draw students from more than 100 countries across the world.
The inaugural Dubai Symposium is expected to become one of the highlights of the Cass calendar, and the introduction of the event is testament to the School’s strong ties to the region. It is another example of the Cass commitment to Dubai and the surrounding region. In 2008, Cass opened a representative office in DIFC. Recently, it appointed a specialist Course Director for its Dubai EMBA programme.
Faten Hani, CEO of the DIFC Centre of Excellence said: “The Dubai Symposium organised by Cass Business School will help to strengthen interaction and dialogue between young business leaders of the UK and the Middle East. The increasing presence of leading European business schools like Cass Business School in the region is contributing to greater business links between the Middle East and Europe. The DIFC Centre of Excellence provides a world-class learning infrastructure and environment for educational institutions from around the world to provide their programmes to students in the Middle East.”
Richard Gillingwater, Dean of Cass Business School said: “Dubai has experienced exceptional growth in recent years, leading the Middle East in its economic boom. Cass is proud of our truly-world class alumni who are living and working in the region and we want to continue to strengthen our ties with the local business community.
“This is a challenging time for all financial hubs – including both London and Dubai. While the crisis necessitates re-evaluation across the financial community, it gives us at Cass a unique opportunity to help shape the next phase – sorting out the new financial order – by providing world-class research and developing leaders of the future.”
About DIFC
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is an onshore hub for global finance. It bridges the time gap between the financial centres of Hong Kong and London and services a region with the largest untapped emerging market for financial services. In just four years, over 800 firms have registered at DIFC. They operate in an open environment complemented with world-class regulations and standards. DIFC offers its member institutions incentives such as 100 per cent foreign ownership, zero tax on income and profits and no restrictions on foreign exchange. In addition their business benefits from modern infrastructure, operational support and business continuity facilities of uncompromisingly high standards.
Cass Business School
Cass Business School, City University, delivers innovative, relevant and forward-looking education, training, consultancy and research. Located on the doorstep of one of the world's leading financial centres, Cass is perfectly positioned to be the intellectual hub of the City of London. Our dialogue with business shapes the structure and content of all our programmes of study, our executive education programmes and our research. Our EMBA, Specialist Masters and Undergraduate Programmes have a reputation for excellence in professional education. Our Executive EMBA is ranked 13th in the world by the Financial Times.
The school undertakes research of national and international significance and supports almost 100 PhD students. Cass has the largest Finance Faculty and the largest Actuarial Science & Insurance Faculty in Europe. Our finance research is ranked 2nd in Europe and 4th in the World outside the US by Financial Management Magazine and our insurance and risk research is ranked 2nd in the world by the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
Within Cass, CassExec has been creating and delivering executive education to the world of business for more than 15 years. The disciplines we cover range from finance and insurance through to leadership, corporate governance and risk. At the heart of our success is the importance we place on working in partnership with our clients to construct bespoke programmes that truly meet their business needs.
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