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CEIBS partners with Nudge in search for future leaders
Overveen, Netherlands, June 2, 2015 – Nudge will partner with the China Europe International Business School on the Nudge Global Leadership Challenge 2015. The goal is to work together on a life changing event that will shape and strengthen the leadership skills in sustainability of 60 young professionals from 30 countries. As global knowledge partner, CEIBS will support the development of this year’s Challenge.
The Nudge Global Leadership Challenge is in response to the need for responsible and innovative leadership as the world undergoes drastic changes such as the scarcity of natural resources, the use of new technologies and climate change. Participants will work together during the three-day Leadership Challenge in Amsterdam (20 – 22 November 2015). The event is for young (23 – 33 years) professionals with a global mind-set and a desire to contribute to a sustainable world. Three winners will be named ‘Best Global Young Leaders in Sustainability 2015’. Their grand prize: a trip, next year, to a world changing project in Africa. The trip will be organised by Nudge, its reward partner Tony’s Chocolonely and the three winners.
Through this partnership, both Nudge and CEIBS will benefit from each other’s networks and will promote new initiatives in sustainability and leadership in order to make a positive contribution to society. The collaboration is being spearheaded by CEIBS Africa.
The Nudge Global Leadership Challenge is supported by several Country Support Partners such as: ABN AMRO, Danone, FMO, Heineken, Interface, Maximum and Unilever.
Partners of the Challenge are: Accenture, AsianNGO, Missing Chapter Foundation, CEIBS, Netvlies, WakaWaka, Tony’s Chocolonely and Seedlink.
About Nudge
Nudge is a social enterprise and B Corp based in The Netherlands, striving towards a sustainable society and has been active since 2010. Nudge connects people and organisations with its online platform in order to achieve grassroots initiatives that bring a positive and long lasting change in our society. By facilitating bottom-up initiatives, Nudge offers perspectives for action that are accessible to everyone. Nudge invites everyone to take action and make a positive contribution to society. Over 44,000 people in The Netherlands are members of the Nudge community and this number increases day by day.
About CEIBS
The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) offers a unique combination of China Depth, Global Breadth, taking advantage of its position as a leading business school in Asia to train responsible leaders. CEIBS offers world-class business management education with proven China expertise. After 20 years of phenomenal growth, CEIBS’ impressive alumni base of more than 16,000 executives includes 2,000+ CEOs and top-level decision makers.
CEIBS is the only Asian business school to have simultaneously achieved global ranking for its MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education Programmes. CEIBS’ wide range of programmes includes a Global Executive MBA, a Finance MBA and collaboration with IESE, a leading b-school in Spain, on both the World Executive MBA and a PhD Programme. Exec Ed and EMBA programmes are also offered at CEIBS facilities in Shenzhen, and in Accra, Ghana.
About CEIBS Africa
CEIBS Africa aims to become another manifestation of China’s commitment to African development. Set up in 2008, CEIBS Africa launched its acclaimed Executive MBA in 2009. CEIBS Africa educates today and tomorrow’s African business leaders and international business leaders interested in African business to enhance the commercial links between Africa and Asia through China. In 2012 CEIBS Africa launched its Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership for Africa (WELA) programme which is currently running in Ghana and Nigeria and will see its first programme in Kenya in 2015. Both the Executive MBA and the WELA programme have a teaching module at the CEIBS Campus in Shanghai.
Contact:
Ilse Lettinga
Project and Communications Manager Nudge Global Leadership Challenge
[email protected], + 31 6 8 32 32 666
Charmaine N. Clarke
Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications, CEIBS
[email protected], +86 21 2890 5509
Kofi Darfoor
CEIBS Africa contact Nudge Global Leadership Challenge 2015
[email protected], +233 544 341 029