AMBA holds Excellence Awards in London

Published 17/02/2020

The Association of MBAs and its sister brand the Business Graduates Association held its annual Excellence Awards and gala dinner on February 7 at the Sheraton in London, UK.

Over 200 business schools leaders from across the global post-graduate business education sector representing 46 schools attended along with category finalists, judges and media.

“We are proud to celebrate the achievements and innovation so clearly evident in AMBA and BGA’s network”

Finalists were shortlisted by the associations and then reviewed by a judging panel made up of AMBA board members, business experts, deans and management leaders.

“On behalf of the AMBA and BGA team, I would like to congratulate the finalists and winners of this year’s Excellence Awards,” said Andrew Main Wilson, chief executive of AMBA and BGA.

“The quality of award entries was once again very high this year and we are proud to celebrate the achievements and innovation so clearly evident in AMBA and BGA’s network of schools and their students.”

Winners included Imperial College Business School, the “first university to “deliver a live lecture via holographic telepresence technology” and César Coasaca of CENTRUM PUCP Business School in Peru for Inventum, a group that have developed an invention that turns air into water.

A former national rugby player with degrees in molecular biology and immunology, Udochuku Richson of IE Business school in Spain, won the MBA Student of the Year Award.

Richson has spent four years building a charity focused on the integration of refugees and is now turning his attention to transforming the healthcare system.

Full list of winners:

Business school career strategy award – Hult International Business School, US

Business School Impact on Community and Society Award – Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim, Germany

Business School Innovation Award – Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, UK

MBA Entrepreneurial Venture (Private Sector) – Sharon Cunningham, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, Ireland, for Shorla Pharma

MBA Entrepreneurial Venture (Third Sector) – César Coasaca, CENTRUM PUCP Business School, Peru, for Inventum

MBA Student of the Year Award – Udochuku Richson, IE Business School, Spain

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