Berlin. September 28 to 30 – CEIBS alumni from across Europe gathered in Berlin at the end of September for the school’s largest European alumni reunion held to date. The two-day gathering was the first in a new rotation arrangement, with a different CEIBS chapter country hosting the reunion each year. Over 80 MBA, EMBA, GEMBA and FMBA alumni made the trip to Germany from over 10 countries including the UK, France, Poland, The Netherlands, South Africa and China. They represented class years dating back as far as 1998, right up to current students from MBA2019.

June 21, 2018. Beijing

June 8, 2018. Shanghai

May 9, 2018. Shenzhen – Joo Yi had never heard of QQ or Tencent in 2008, when she was a year into her CEIBS MBA studies. Back then, she was still using MSN to keep in touch with friends and family in South Korea. Tencent only made its way onto her radar after she began looking for a summer internship that would help her reach the very clear goal she had set herself when enrolling at CEIBS: get a job with a Chinese company. Eight years later she is still with Tencent. The job initially took her back home to Seoul but now she works out of the company’s Shenzhen headquarters as Director of Business Strategy in the Mobile Internet Group.

April 18, 2018. Shanghai – If there is an accident involving an autonomous vehicle, who is liable? Is it the person sitting in the driver’s seat who, it can be argued, is merely a passenger while the car is operating autonomously? Is it the car manufacturer, or the company behind the data being used by the vehicle? As digitisation transforms and shapes the future of the auto industry, and related sectors such as auto insurance, these are issues players will have to face. This was among the points raised by Luz G. Mauch, Senior Vice President of T-Systems' Sales & Service for the Automotive and Manufacturing Industry during today’s talk on the Shanghai Campus of China Europe International Business School.

April 13 & 14, 2018. Shanghai – Dominique de Villepin, the former Prime Minister of France who CEIBS is now honoured to have as a member of its faculty, has stressed the importance of the 15-year-old China-EU Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, especially at a time of trade tension between the US and China.

April 15, 2018. Beijing

April 11, 2018. Paris – The newly-elected council of the CEIBS Alumni Association France Chapter held their first meeting today. They enjoyed a long but fruitful evening of getting to know each other better, strategic planning and – of course – Chinese food.

Fifteen years ago, Mitchell Elegbe launched Interswitch and totally disrupted the way Africans pay for goods and services.