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University’s first international board
convenes in London
It was a typically gray October day outside the leaded glass windows of London’s Westminster Abbey when Hamish Taylor ’86MBA kicked off the inaugural meeting of Emory’s first international advisory board, the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Board.
“This board is a blank page in many ways,” says Taylor, of Scotland, who chaired the first meeting. “It’s up to us to decide what our role can be and how we can help Emory.”
Goizueta and the Woodruff Health Sciences Center have long led the University in global outreach and international contacts. But internationalization is a key part of Emory’s vision, and leaders across campus are stepping up efforts to forge connections with strategic partners, alumni, potential students, and like-minded institutions around the world. The EMEA board, to be followed by two more regional boards, is a critical early step toward becoming an international destination university. The heart of the board’s mission is to build awareness of Emory in its members’ respective regions.
Taylor, CEO of a company called Skills Exchange and a self-described “marketing man,” began the discussion by remarking that the public perception of Emory in the United States and the wider world is not on par with the quality of its education. That’s one area where the EMEA board can help, he says.
“We’ve got a fantastic product, and that’s why I’m excited about being part of this group,” he notes. “If we can’t sell this, we can’t sell anything.”
The EMEA board, made up of leaders in business, law, health care, government, and education, spent the afternoon in wide-ranging discussion about ways to put Emory on the map in their regions. Lado Gurgenidze ’91MBA, CEO of the Bank of the Republic of Georgia, joined Taylor as the other Goizueta graduate of the group.
The four-hour meeting was followed by a reception where well over a hundred alumni from all over Europe came to meet President Jim Wagner and reconnect with Emory. Many of the guests—an estimated more than half—were Goizueta alumni.
For more information on this event and alumni living abroad, please see the online version of Emory Magazine (Winter 2006) at http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/winter2006/
london_emea.htm.
—Paige Parvin
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