“Get your goals off the ground”
Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General of UIC and Mr Bernard Belletante, Dean of EMLYON Business School, officially signed an agreement on 11 September 2014 in Paris on the creation of the world’s first Global Executive MBA dedicated to intermodal transport. The intake is planned for February 2015.
Participants will take part in 3 week-long regional residency periods, 2 week-long face-to-face global community sessions and 3 industry specific Action learning projects – all tied together by a high quality blended learning programme.
The aims of the programme are to:
- Help develop a critical understanding of the international rail sector and the current policy and managerial innovations underway
- Encourage managers in the industry to foster an entrepreneurial spirit
- Teach participants how to engage people in critical change, improve efficiency and safety and influence key stakeholders
- Develop participants’ team leadership and people development skills
- Give executives the tools to identify and seize opportunities to enhance effectiveness and increase customer satisfaction
Applicants should have a minimum of six years working experience and advanced professional proficiency in English.
A first-of-its-kind initiative strongly supported by UIC Chairman
UIC Chairman, Mr Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, strongly supports this initiative and underlines: “I am very confident and supportive of the work currently carried out by UIC with EMLYON to create a prestigious MBA in Rail anddefine adequate training and educational strategies and programmes for all six UIC Regions.. Transmission and education being issues that are close to my heart and which found a new resonance in the establishment of this MBA, the first one worldwide completely dedicated to the rail issue, I would be honoured to accompany its implementation, and to welcome the first graduates to our railway family.”
UIC Director General Jean-Pierre Loubinoux said:
“From its creation in 1922, UIC has always tried to share and transmit the best knowledge and practice to its members. With such a quick evolution of demographics, technical and information technology, managerial needs, customer expectations, international and multicultural context, the time has come to prepare a future generation of managers and directors to develop the railways of tomorrow. This MBA is a world premiere and answers precisely the vision of railway directors today to prepare the directors of tomorrow, in an open world, with open minds, open access, and hopefully the same open heart that has prevailed in the railway community so far.”