Stakeholder Engagement
 
 
Academic Platforms
 
IMD (International Institute for Management Development)
 
The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) has pioneered executive education for over 60 years in an open and collaborative environment with a strong client focus. The institute, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, combines practical experience and thought leadership with a borderless global mindset and top-ranking programs and services to inspire and challenge tomorrow's business leaders.
 
Our relationship with IMD has also evolved to the status of becoming a corporate ‘learning partner’ with a view of orchestrating change management and innovation in our Partner Companies. IMD is an important vehicle through which we engage with the management teams of our Partner Companies – focusing on their executive management development. We are a learning partner at IMD and our Founder and Group CEO Arif Naqvi sits on the Foundation Board of IMD along with 50 CEOs of the world’s best known companies. Over the last two years we have run tailored programs with IMD for the management teams of our Partner Companies. Our partnership with IMD also expressed itself through the Celebration of Entrepreneurship.
 
Harvard University
 
Harvard University is an Ivy League university and one of the leading educational and research institutions in the world. The Abraaj Academy was created with Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner. This bespoke training course exposes Abraaj staff to cutting-edge management thinking with topics and materials customized to be of particular interest and relevance to the firm’s mission. It also serves as a valuable benefit when engaging with our team and helps to both retain and attract employees.
 
The London School of Economics and Political Science
 
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) was founded in 1895 and has grown to become one of the most prestigious social science universities in the world, ranked alongside Yale, Harvard, UC Berkeley and Stanford. A specialist university with an international intake, LSE's reach extends from its central London campus to around the world. 
 
Abraaj has worked closely LSE, having signed an endowment agreement to create the first Private Equity program in the Department of Finance. This is the first private equity program taught at any major European university, and it carries the Abraaj name. This should in practice provide Abraaj with access to content and intellectual value-add which in turn can serve our Limited Partners, our network around the world, and especially our industry globally. Additionally, Abraaj sponsors the education of 10 MSc students every year for five years from the MENASA region, covering a range of disciplines from International Relations, Finance, Economics, Social Policy, Health, Gender Development, MIS, and Governance amongst others.
 
John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
American University in Cairo
 
The John D. Gerhart Center serves as the leading provider of knowledge and resources for strengthening philanthropic practice in the Arab region. The mission of the Gerhart Center is to promote philanthropy and civic engagement in the Arab region through the particular role academic institutions play in professional skills building. It also supports the emerging philanthropic sector in the MENASA region, through offering training and advisory services, conducting research, holding public seminars and serving as an institutional model for others.
 
As a strategic partner with Gerhart Centre for Civic Engagement at the American University of Cairo, Abraaj has launched a CSR capacity building program for companies in the MENA region. Abraaj’s support of this initiative speaks to the commitment of the firm to go beyond building its own capacity in this respect and to play an active leadership role in encouraging the private sector throughout MENASA to channel its professional and financial resources into strategic sustainability and philanthropy initiatives.
 
 


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