How is this pandemic altering the DNA of global organizations? Will the crisis transform the concept of “leadership” forever? And what new skills will leaders at all levels need to successfully navigate this new normal?
We invite you to join this panel – the first in a series of regional events - discussing how to cultivate successful global leadership in the wake of this unprecedented crisis with CEMS Corporate Partners, alumni and academics based within the EMEA region.
Register today!
https://cems-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h03C68aNRbyW7_QYDmLhIw
Participants:
Chair
Professor Dr. Marie-Thérèse Claes (Chair)
Marie-Thérèse Claes is professor at the Institute for Gender and Diversity in Organizations at the WU University of Economics and Business in Vienna Austria. She teaches on the CEMS programme and is part of the CEMS Global Leadership and Cross-Cultural Management Faculty Group.
Before that she was professor of International and Cross-cultural Management at Louvain School of Management (LSM, University of Louvain Belgium) and ICHEC Brussels Business School. In addition, she holds guest professorships at several other universities in Europe, Asia and the United States of America, was Dean of the Faculty of Business at the Asian University Thailand, and Director of the Executive MBA at LSM.
he is also consultant and coach for relocation, diversity management and global leadership. She has worked as a consultant to various companies and is a former President of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR Europa) and the European Women’s Management Development International Network (EWMD). She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fulbright and a Japan Foundation alumna.
Panelists:
Fadi Farra
CEMS alumnus Fadi Farra is Co-founder, Director & Partner at Whiteshield Partners (a CEMS Corporate Partner), with more than 20 years of experience in strategy consulting and policy advisory globally, including industrial and innovation policies, agro-business, micro-economics, private sector development and competitiveness policies.
Fadi Farra is also an academic and senior lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government since 2009. Prior to founding Whiteshield Partners, Fadi was a senior economist and head of unit at the OECD in the Secretary General Office in Paris. He had joined the OECD after a career in strategy consulting with the Boston Consulting Group and AT Kearney in New York and London (Principal position). Fadi chaired the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Manufacturing Council of the World Economic Forum and is a regular commentator in global media.
Seren Bayramoglu
Seren joined CEMS Corporate Partner Whirlpool in 2017 as HR Director Total Rewards and Talent. Currently she is holding the role of HR Director Talent and HR Transformation.
She joined Whirlpool from General Electric where she worked 9 years in Istanbul, London and Dubai. Her last role in GE was the Compensation and Benefits Director for Middle East Africa region, managing the compensation and benefits for 11000 employees across 35 countries.
Following her graduation, she completed a masters degree in Organizational Behaviour. Her first full time job was with Shell Turkey, where she worked 5 years in different HR roles.
Tobias Marmann
UCD/ESADE CEMS graduate Tobias Marmann is a recruitment expert, who has worked for some of the world’s leading technology companies.
Tobias started his career at Google in Ireland, where during a project assignment with the University Programmes Team, he soon recognised his passion for the recruiting space. Initially he looked after the business internship program in Dublin & Wroclaw and campus recruitment in the DACH and BeNeLux region. Tobias' responsibilities in the University Programmes Team changed regularly and allowed him to work on MBA talent acquisition programs across Europe as well as Engineering recruitment based out of Boston in the US.
He then moved on to Amsterdam to Uber and Juniper Networks - still in the student/graduate space. For the past three years, he has been working at Tesla where he built the European Early Talent Team from scratch. Since January, Tobias builds and leads Tesla's Recruitment Team for its new Gigafactory near Berlin.
In his free time, you can spot him discovering Berlin on his Dutch bicycle or consulting students on the CEMS GAMP mentoring platform.
Dr Christine Cote
Dr Christine Cote is currently Senior Lecturer in Practice the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, where is Academic Director of the CEMS Master of International Management and MBA Exchange. She has been giving lectures and teaching seminars to masters, executive masters and undergraduate students since 2009.
Before entering academia Dr Cote worked as an international trade negotiator with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. In this capacity she represented Canada in negotiations at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. Prior to this Dr Cote worked as a strategy policy and economics consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers based out of London and was also a political advisor and organiser in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada.
Rebeca Ehrnrooth
Rebeca Ehrnrooth is a Principal at Equilibrium, a leading sustainability-driven real asset investor, responsible for Equilibrium's activities in Europe and the Middle East. She joined in 2014.
Rebeca started her career in the M&A team at Merrill Lynch Europe and worked in investment banking in London and Frankfurt. She subsequently joined Fitch Ratings as a Director in the Energy & Utilities team covering Northern European companies, followed by working at Morgan Stanley as a Vice President in the Credit Rating Advisory team covering numerous sectors including renewable energy. She switched to focus on capital raising at Pantheon, one of the largest global private equity fund-of-funds based in London, as Principal in the Clients Services team and served as Pantheon’s global co-head of Responsible Investing.
Rebeca holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics. She completed a CEMS-degree including an exchange at the Erasmus Universiteit in the Netherlands. Rebeca serves on the CEMS Alumni Association board as President.
