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Arun Chaubey, Indian School of Business
Age: 32
Nationality: Indian
Background: Arun has more than seven years' work experience in re-insurance and IT industries. On graduation he intends to pursue a career in global business development.

Lubica Valentova, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
Age: 28
Nationality: Slovakian
Background: After graduating with a law degree from Comenius University in Bratislava Slovakia, Lubica worked in sales. She is eager to improve her hard skills such as accounting.

Diana Mak, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Age: 29
Nationality: US
Background: Diana has a degree in psychology from Wellesley College in the US and is currently completing her international MBA. She worked at Morgan Stanley’s global wealth management division for five years before working as a volunteer teacher in China’s Huan province.

Katie Sherning, Cranfield School of Management
Age: 27
Nationality: New Zealander
Background: Having completed an undergraduate degree in civil engineering at Canterbury University, New Zealand, Katie has worked as an engineer and project manager on infrastructure projects for the public and private sectors. Her MBA will help her to understand and manage the commercial aspect of large infrastructure projects.

Andre de Haes, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Age: 25
Nationality: Dual: French and South African
Background: Andre has an undergraduate degree from Oxford University and has worked as a consultant in McKinsey. He has spent the summer working at a European venture capital firm to learn more about the start-up opportunities in Europe and the way VC investment decisions are made.

Nihar Dalmia, Oxford University: Saïd
Age: 28
Nationality: Indian
Background: Nihar holds both a chartered accountant degree and a certified public accountant certificate as well as various software certificates. He has consulted for 14 different industries in an accounting/technology role and hopes to use his MBA to move into mainstream strategy consultancy.

Eunice Benedicto, Durham Business School
Age: 35
Nationality: Filipino
Background: Eunice is an accountant and has more than 10 years' experience in auditing and accounting and currently works for American Airlines in Texas. Among other things she was attracted to Durham because of its charity consulting project.

Benjamin Bechtolsheim, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
Age: 24
Nationality: American
Background: Benjamin has a degree in political science from Brandeis University in Massachusetts and has worked in international development in Africa. He intends to use his MBA in socially responsible corporate practice.

Stephen Garden, London Business School
Age: 27
Nationality: British
Background: Stephen holds an undergraduate degree in business and has worked in account management at Fujitsu and Verizon. He is midway through his MBA and hopes ultimately to become an entrepreneur. He is currently on exchange with the University of California Berkeley.

Agustina Sacerdote, Haas School of Business, Berkeley
Age: 30
Nationality: Mexican
Background: Agustina has a degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has worked as an analytic brand planner and a consultant for a marketing strategy organisation. She is in the second year of her MBA.

Derek Laan, Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business-Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Age: 25
Nationality: American
Background:After graduating from Purdue University Derek moved to Korea to teach English at an elementary school and hopes on graduation to work in international marketing for a large Korean company.

Nicole Hawkins, Fuqua School of Business
Age: 26
Nationality: American
Background: Nicole has a degree in finance and real estate from Temple University and has been working in the affordable housing industry in an asset management function. She wants to work in international development in developing economies.

Liliana Diaconu, Brandeis International Business School
Age: 26
Nationality: Moldovan
Background: Liliana is midway through programme and spent her summer interning with Accenture in Boston. She was attracted by Brandeis' international focus and is eager to pursue a career in consulting.

Ibad Hyder, National University of Singapore
Age: 25
Nationality: Pakistani
Background: Ibad has a degree in accounting and finance from Lahore University of Management Science and has worked as a credit risk analyst with Bank Alfalah in Pakistan. He is eager to broaden his international exposure.

Wing Lee, Ceibs
Age: 27
Nationality: British
Background: After studying for an economics degree at Edinburgh University Wing trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young before returning to Hong Kong to work for Merrill Lynch. He hopes his MBA will help him to develop a strong network in the region.

Lee Mrnjavac, Iese Business School
Age: 30
Nationality: Australian
Background: Having studied engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Lee joined Ericsson as a graduate engineer and has subsequently worked worldwide.

Noel Hanssens, University of Hong Kong
Age: 32
Nationality: Australian/Belgian
Background: After earning a degree in information technology from Charles Darwin University, Noel has worked as a project manager in the strategic policy and performance area in the Australian public sector.

Ernest Gyimah, European School of Management and Technology
Age: 26
Nationality: Ghanaian
Background: Ernest gained a degree in banking and finance from the University of Ghana before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, working across Africa. He is a Kofi Annan fellow and hopes to help grow small businesses in the developing world.

Mihai Danila, Insead (Fontainebleau)
Age: 28
Nationality: Romanian
Background: After graduating with a degree in international business from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest Mihai moved to the financial sector, working with a private equity fund and most recently as an investment banker.

Aushima Thakur, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Age: 29
Nationality: Indian
Background: Aushima is a Fulbright scholar and has experience of both the corporate world and NGOs. She is keen to develop successful sustainable models for the world's poorest societies.

Hajime Sudo, Bradford University School of Management - University of Perugia: Bradford-Perugia joint MBA programme
Age: 30
Nationality: Japanese
Background: Hajime is a graduate of the Accounting School of Tohoku University, Japan. He wants to become an accounting professional.

Kelvin Chiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Age: 28
Nationality: Canadian
Background: A graduate from the electrical engineering programme at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Kelvin has worked as a project manager for Ontario Power Generation at a nuclear plant near Toronto. He is a certified personal trainer and fitness professional.

Brigitte Roediger, University of Stellenbosch Business School, part time MBA
Age: 26
Nationality: South African
Background: Brigitte has a degree in financial analysis and marketing communications from the University of Stellenbosch. She is the assistant brand manager at a wine farm near Cape Town and will continue to work as she studies which will allow her to repay her business school loan.

Wesley Cole, Executive MBA Cass Business School, London
Age: 29
Nationality: British
Background: A business systems manager for a recruitment company, Wesley was keen to study for an MBA whilst working full time. He hopes to be able to develop his leadership skills and apply them to his career.

Andi Caruso, SDA Bocconi
Age: 27
Nationality: Canadian
Background: Having graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, with a degree in journalism, Andi first studied acting before beginning a marketing career in the hospitality and entertainment industry. She wants to move into business development and strategy.

Aman Modi, IMD
Age: 30
Nationality: Indian/British
Background: Aman has a BA in accounting and a masters in banking and international finance from Cass Business School, London. With more than eight years of finance-focused experience he wants to move into general management.

Ashish Rastogi, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Age: 32
Nationality: Indian
Background: Ashish has worked for Infosys in various capacities in the US and India. He wants to build a career in corporate strategy and product marketing. He is studying on the Full Time MBA for executives (PGPex).

Anthemos Georgiades, Harvard Business School
Age: 28
Nationality: British
Background: Anthemos has a degree from Oxford and an MPhil from Cambridge. He has experience working in management consultancy and as an economic adviser on the Conservative partys’ election campaign. Ultimately Anthemos would like to become a member of Parliament.

Mark Partridge, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Age: 28
Nationality: Dual (US & UK)
Background: A British-American citizen Mark graduated from University College London with a degree in Modern History before working as a journalist in Seattle. He is eager to work in business rather than write about it and hopes on graduation to work in a venture capital firm.

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