On the heels of its annual conference in Baltimore earlier this month, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a nonprofit education organization dedicated to advancing graduate management education worldwide, announced that it has admitted 12 new member schools and elected seven new business and education leaders to its board of directors.
GMAC, which also owns and administers the GMAT exam, was founded by a group of business school deans in 1954 to increase access to graduate management education for students around the globe. With the admission of 12 new member schools, the total number of GMAC member schools is now 177 from 19 countries.
“We are pleased to welcome these new member schools to our ranks,” David Wilson, GMAC president and CEO, said in a statement. “They are at the forefront of graduate management education around the world, upholding the high standards of excellence and integrity that are a hallmark of membership in the Council.”
The new member schools hail from eight different countries. They include
• Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Cass Business School, City University, London, U.K.
• EMLYON Business School, France
• Fudan University School of Management, China
• Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China
• IE Business School (Spain)
• Instituto Panamericano de Alta Direccion de Empresa (IPADE), Mexico
• London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
• Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada
• St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management, Russia
• University of Toledo College of Business Administration, U.S.
• Willamette University, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, U.S.
GMAC also announced the election of seven new members to its board of directors. Leaders in business and education – including deans at several top business school – the new elects join a 14-member board that includes representatives from academe and industry around the world responsible for setting strategic goals and guiding the Council.
The new directors:
• James W. Bradford, dean, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
• James M. Danko, dean, Villanova School of Business, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania
• Stacey Kole, deputy dean, full-time MBA program and clinical professor of economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Peggy Bishop Lane, deputy vice dean and adjunct associate professor of accounting, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Rosemarie Mecca, retired executive vice president and chief financial officer, Laureate Education Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
• Alfons Sauquet, dean, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
• Alexander Sevilla, assistant dean and director, MBA programs, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
“The significant experience of our new directors in both the corporate and graduate management education areas make them especially valuable additions to our board,” GMAC’s Wilson said in a statement. “These are challenging times, and their perspectives and insights will serve our industry and our organization well.”
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