Imperial College to Take New Lecture Series around the World: MBA News

Imperial Business School is to hold a new lecture series on the global economy and the challenges it presents for business. The talks will be given in the home cities of business leaders in multiple locations around the world.

In announcing the series, dean of the UK’s Imperial Business School, Professor G. ‘Anand’ Anandalingam, explained how he felt that the issues of the global economy affect us all.

“It is the story behind the coffee you drink in the morning, the technology you use in the day and the car that gets you home,” he said in a press release for Imperial College.

Global economy series a chance to explore and discuss ideas

The lecture series’ raison d’être is to provide an arena for debate in which Imperial College’s international network and the local business communities can exchange ideas and come away with a fresh insight into different arenas of the global economy.

Intended themes to cover, and explore the impact on business of, are innovation and entrepreneurship, climate, sustainable energy, healthcare and finance.

The talks will commence in January with an event in Singapore and one in Shanghai. The plan is then to move across to North and South America, South Africa and India in the months that follow. 

The first lecture is to be given by an Imperial College alumnus and startup founder of V-Key, Eddie Chau, on the subject of Singapore’s culture of entrepreneurship. In Shanghai, KPMG partner, Egidio Zarrella, will discuss the future trade relationship between China and the rest of the world.

The lecture series will be open to all and free to attend. However, if one finds it difficult to make all of the intended far-flung locations next year, the lecture series will be chaired by academics from the business school and they will be writing up some of the key issues relevant to each lecture, so there should be a good opportunity to follow the series in its entirety.

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