Executive education moves to new countries through new learning alliance

The Business School will bring its Executive Education offer to new audiences in Asia and South America thanks to a new partnership announced today.

Imperial College Business School already offers open and bespoke programmes in areas such as risk management, finance, health, innovation, strategy and leadership which attract business executives from a wide range of industries. 

The new partnership with the Financial Times and the IE Business School in Spain, known as the FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance, will enable Imperial to run its Executive Education programmes through local business schools and education institutions based in countries including China, South America and Singapore. The partnership will allow Imperial to share its expertise in Executive Education with new corporate clients based outside of the UK, whilst offering a more global service to its existing international clients who include Panasonic, Vodaphone and Total.

The FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance aims to bring together the best business minds and practitioners in Executive Education around the world and to integrate their expertise with local professionals to create bespoke programmes suitable for business people around the world. These programmes are created using a combination of online and face-to-face learning and the latest multimedia materials, delivered by business education practitioners, academics and FT journalists.

Beate Baldwin, Head of Open Enrolment Programmes and Marketing, Imperial College Business School said, “We are delighted to become a partner of the FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance. This new partnership will allow us to enter a network of excellence on an international level and satisfy today’s corporate expectations of providing the same learning experience all over the world.”

Abbas Hassan, COO at FT|IE CLA explained, “Imperial’s hands-on approach to executive education reflects our vision of providing training programmes which take executives out of their comfort zones so they can experiment with new ways of thinking and working. The ‘real world’ pushes executives to combine academic learning, leadership skills and industry and local context. This is what the FT|IE offers and this is what Imperial will help us to deliver in the UK.”