GRADUATE MANAGEMENT ADMISSION COUNCIL ANNOUNCES 4 NEW MEMBERS TO BOARD

KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 (Bernama) -- The Graduate Management Admission Council™ (GMAC™), a global association of leading graduate business schools, has announced the addition of four new members to its board of directors.

Katy Montgomery, Associate Dean, Degree Programmes, INSEAD; François Ortalo-Magné, Dean, London Business School; and, Giuseppe Soda, Dean, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, will begin their terms on July 1, according to a statement.

In addition, Yuan Ding, Vice President and Dean of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), has been appointed board director in January to fill the seat vacated by Enase Okonedo of the Pan-Atlantic University.

Yuan Ding has been honoured three times with the CEIBS Teaching Excellence Award. He is the author of multiple books on financial reporting and his research appears in leading academic journals.

As the INSEAD Associate Dean of Degree Programmes, Montgomery is responsible for the commercial leadership of the INSEAD Degree Programme portfolio across four campuses: Fontainebleau, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, and San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Ortalo-Magné is the ninth Dean of London Business School (LBS). He has led the relaunch of the LBS brand, the growth of degree programmes and a significant increase in philanthropic support for scholarships.

Giuseppe ‘Beppe’ Soda is the Dean of SDA Bocconi School of Management and Full Professor of Organization Theory and Network Analysis at Bocconi University. Soda’s research investigates the performance consequences of the interplay between organisational architectures and organisational networks.

Besides the aforementioned newly-elected board members, Martin Boehm, Professor of Marketing and former Dean of IE Business School and soon the new Rector of EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, and Themin Suwardy, Dean of Postgraduate Professional Programmes, Singapore Management University, were re-elected for a second term.

GMAC also recognises its outgoing board members, Leila Guerra, Vice Dean (Education) of Imperial College Business School, and Peter Tufano, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

More details at www.gmac.com.

-- BERNAMA