Michael M. Obermayer becomes Managing Director and Dean of the Global Leadership Fellows Programme.
< The Global Leadership Fellows Programme combines rigorous project-based learning with a pioneering Master’s in Global Leadership. The three-year intensive work and learning programme is intended to train the future leaders of global enterprises and international organizations. The first contingent of just under fifty candidates for the Programme has already arrived at the Forum’s headquarters in Geneva.
Dr Obermayer worked with McKinsey & Company for 28 years. He built and chaired McKinsey’s practice in Eastern Europe and was based in Moscow throughout the 1990s. Most recently he was Senior Partner as well as Dean of McKinsey’s global corporate university which he led from London. He remains a senior adviser and faculty member for McKinsey’s internal education programme.
Alan P. Larson, former US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, will join the World Economic Forum as a strategic adviser and director.
The Forum will draw on his expertise on a number of initiatives and projects, particularly in the implementation of programmes that foster the role of the private sector in the development agenda. He will also help the Forum strengthen its regional activities in areas where he has particular knowledge, including the Middle East, China, India and Russia.
Mr Larson, who holds a PhD in Economics, has been an economic counsellor to five Secretaries of State since he joined the Department of State in 1973. From 1999 to 2005 he served as US Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs and was the first Foreign Service Officer to serve in this position.
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