As the Vice President of Strategy Pricing & Interchange at Mastercard, Ana Maria Olaya Vargas epitomises reasoned and modern-day feminism, inspired by the mixing of cultures. Her journey has taken her from Bogotá to Paris, and indeed Audencia, where she earned a master’s degree in International Management.
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Fifty-year-old Jon Harr (MBA 05) comes from Oslo. After a career in engineering and then working as project director at the National Centre for Space Studies (French CNES) in Toulouse, he returned to Norway to head the Norwegian Space Agency. Since 2022, he has been Operations Director for Andøya Spaceport, the first spaceport to be established in continental Europe, located in the Vesterålen archipelago in northern Norway.
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For Delphine Francois, a career path is something you carve out for yourself, with no fear of the par-for-the-course twists and turns, nor forgetting that the finish lines are merely stages along the way. This is how a young Parisian came to wind up in Cleveland, Ohio, after studying in Nantes, and travel the world, living in some sixteen cities in five different countries.
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From his beginnings as Product Manager Biotherm Spain to being appointed the Managing Director of Prada, Mugler and Valentino in Europe, 39-year-old Jesus Abia Arias has metamorphosed whilst continuing to remain true to himself. He has made his exemplary 15-year career as part of the L'Oréal group the source of a profoundly humanistic vision of management, performance, and life. His time spent in Miami, as Travel Retail Area Manager, then ...
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Mathieu Aguesse is a 2015 graduate of ICAM School of engineering and Audencia’s specialised master in Marketing, Design and Creation (MS MDC). From his offices in San Francisco, he runs the US version of Schoolab, an innovation studio that trains, advises and supports its clients in responsible innovation.
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As Emmanuel, he graduated from Audencia’s Grande Ecole Master in Management programme and pursued a career in investment banking. As Gus, he learned to bake at the French Culinary Institute before opening his bakery, L'Imprimerie, in Brooklyn, New York.
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Esha grew up in a small Nepalese town on the eastern hills of the Himalayas. Her parents - who owned a bed and breakfast, were able and willing to offer her a private education. Esha is acutely aware of her privileged upbringing.
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It is with an open smile and a lilting accent betraying her Southern France origins that Jessica Giuliani greets us for this interview. Hers is a story of a youngster from Toulouse whose head was always turned upwards to the sky; such was her fascination for aeroplanes.
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Not everyone is tempted to move halfway across the globe and start life again in a foreign country but it certainly was a decision that paid off for Annie. Let’s meet the international executive who tells us about her journey and why her granny-style trolley, her swimsuit and a healthy dose of adventurous spirit are some of its special features.
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In 2021, Ramin Shahzamani was appointed CEO of War Child, an Amsterdam-based NGO that supports children affected by conflict around the world. Ramin, who has spent most of his career in the humanitarian sector, brings with him years of experience in international cooperation and fieldwork.
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