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ESADE Student represents Saudi Arabia at the G20 Summit
Khalil Alnammari, a Full Time MBA student (Class of 2013) at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, has been selected as representative for his native country of Saudi Arabia in the upcoming G20 Youth Summit, a premier forum for discussing, planning and monitoring international economic and financial cooperation.
The Youth Summit, this year being held in the French city of Cannes on 3 and 4 November, is an annual two-day event for graduate students from G8 and G20 member countries, run parallel to the real world events concerning G8 and G20, with huge support from the French presidency.
The aim of this event, now in its sixth year, is to promote dialogue about current world issues, “promote cross-cultural understanding and build global friendships”.
Issues to be debated in this year’s summit:
Reforming the International Monetary System (IMS)
Strengthening financial regulation
Combating commodity price volatility, ensuring food security
Supporting employment and strengthening the social dimension of globalization
Fighting corruption
Working on behalf of development : development and innovative financing
To follow Khalil on Twitter during the entire event, simply search for @kalnammari and @theesademba. He will be back with his own personal views of the whole event on his return to Barcelona.
For more information on Youth Diplomacy and to sign up for future events to represent your own country, visit www.youthdiplomacy.org
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Ferrán Adrià launches his new Global Ideas Competition at ESADE.
Five of the World’s top business schools (Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, ESADE and London Business School) will be participating in this competition run by world-renowned Catalan chef, Ferrán Adrià to put their new business ideas to him as to how to reinvent his elBulli restaurant as elBulliFoundation, due to reopen in 2014.
Adrià launched the competition in ESADE on 5 October in his home town of Barcelona and has plans to travel to each of the participating schools in the coming weeks to get the ball rolling. Watch this video for more information!
Sunny April
Spring is here and most people take advantage of breaks to go to the great terrace ESADE has to enjoy the nice weather!
First of all, big congrats to Andrea Kollmorgen, Erkki-Antti Sadinmaa, Charlie Ballard and Ricard Vila who have reached the final of the Aspen Case Competition happening in a week in New York. Also to Alex Dobres and Mike Yu who reached another final, the Novartis Case Competition one happening exactly the same day.
Last week, ESADE hosted the Graduate Business Conference (http://gbc.esadembasa.com/gbc2011.html). It was an intense week with leaders in the Student Associations from top-MBA universities from around the World.
Another exciting event is the Quest for Talent (http://www.quest-for-talent.com) promoted by the Entrepreneurship club. This event aims at providing an open talent platform for growth companies, entrepreneurs and MBAs from Europe’s best business schools.
We have heard that some 2013 class members are already looking forward to come to ESADE. It’s nice to read the energy and the amazing backgrounds. I feel like that one year ago I was in the same situation so I can understand the doubts and the excitement. Welcome!
Raül