Graduates of the best business schools of the world arrived to Almaty!

Within the framework of Global MBA Tour, graduates from the best schools of the world arrived to Almaty: London Business School, Columbia Business School, and Hong Kong Business School.

Triple (joint) program of Global Executive MBA (London Business School, Columbia Business School, and Hong Kong Business School) is in the top-5 the Executive MBA programs in the world. 20 students and graduates of this program visited Kazakhstan, according to long tradition of MBA students to visit in turn each country of the classmates. Previously, they have visited Taiwan, China, Washington, Beijing, Seoul, and Japan.

Meetings of this kind are under a very specific goals and objectives: they are useful for the development of the economy, it is some kind of platform on which representatives of business meet and do business closer to each other, uniting economies of the different countries.

Among the guest are top managers of such companies as: Samsung Electronics, Dell, Eurex, Gazprombank, Pfizer Inc, Spencer Stuart, BMW Group Romania, Lagardere Travel Retail China, Maxwell Capital Group, Brightmore Capital, Rackspace, Da Vinci Capital Management / IT Invest, Robb Report Russia, Evli Bank Plc, NN Group (Formerly ING), Grant Thornton UK LLP, Spencer Stuart, Jang Industries.

Graduates were impressed with what they saw in Kazakhstan. "I saw that the entrepreneurship develops in Republic of Kazakhstan, and it became a trend in your country, it is pleasant for me that the university supports this tendency, developing entrepreneurial education", - noted Michael Parker, the graduate of the London business school.

In the evening on February 10 informal meeting of guests with graduates of the Almaty Management University MBA programs took place. CEO of Lemonadoff Aziz Ermetov, the director of Tengrinews Sunkar Karabalin, the HR director Cousteau Group Madina Karsakbayeva and others attended the meeting. Guests talked informally on relevant topics, discussed the business education trends in different countries and learned how business lives and develops in Kazakhstan.

The main speakers of the event were Erkin Tatishev, chairman of the Board of Directors «Kusto Management Limited», and president of JSC "Kostanay minerals"; Sanzhar Ketebekov, CEO of the development of information and communication technologies; Katherine Liu-Bevan, director of marketing for Spencer Stuart (London, UK); Simon Bevan, partner, Grant Thornton (London, UK); Assylbek Kozhahmetov, Rector of Almaty Management University (AlmaU, formerly IAB), Doctor of Business Administration.

"I am glad that AlmaU holds such meetings, it is useful for development of the international relations and the Kazakhstan business education, - said Erkin Tatishev, is not only allows to establish good, informal connection between business schools, but also promotes cooperation between the countries on a new level".

Graduates of the world's business schools have met with undergraduate students of AlmaU English Department, visited the sports complex, library and an innovative museum of the University, and were acquainted with the project of construction of the atrium of AlmaU University. For a few days in Kazakhstan, foreigners had to try the meat in Kazakh, kumys (horse milk), visited the National Museum, Saki sauna. Particular impression on the guests made, of course, Almaty Mountains, over which they flew in a helicopter, as well as skiing and the special Kazakh hospitality.