A peer-to-peer discussion with the Dean of INSEAD, The Business School for the World.

🎙️ Deans Counsel welcomes guest panelist Alex Triantis, Dean of Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and panelist Jim Ellis for a lively discussion with Francisco Veloso, dean of INSEAD, a global educational institution with campuses spanning three continents and locations in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. As a truly global business school, INSEAD has built a multi-campus model with a differentiated positioning that makes the institution stand apart in graduate and executive business education. Though he’s spent the lion's share of his academic career as a dean, Veloso brings extensive experience advising both governmental and private business entities on industrial development, high tech innovation and entrepreneurship and business education. 

In this episode on multinational business school's, Veloso shares his insights on INSEAD’s global strategy, how they attract students, faculty and staff who value learning and working internationally and the challenges and opportunities of deploying global programming. For example, while INDEAD does not offer “local” degrees, meaning no program is based solely at one of their campuses, but they do provide an authentic and valuable diverse learning environment to prepare for and place students in a variety of global career opportunities. 

“Our MBA operates in a way that our students move around from Singapore to Fontainebleau and vice versa. They can spend time in Abu Dhabi. [Students] can spend time in the U.S., both in our SF hub and also in our collaboration with Wharton, said Veloso. … “That part of the offering is that international experience.” 

Accordingly, INSEAD has placed more students in the UAE in recent years than other locales; Veloso credits this to the country’s openness in terms of visas and welcoming all nationalities and its growth in job job opportunities. “And the students will flock there because they feel it's a great opportunity for them to learn it to be part of an amazing trajectory.”

Though, global placement still is not without its challenges. INSEAD has put together a strong career team and leverages both AI tools, industry relationships and alumni networks to support placing students and graduates in jobs around the world. 

Supporting the trajectory of students as well as motivating staff and faculty is continually top of mind for Veloso. He focuses on believing in the mission of the institution and really feeling the importance of the work he is doing as a dean, as a leader, to support that. Though the nature of a deanship is demanding, Veloso reminds us of the rewards working with brilliant minds—students, faculty and staff—who are each contributing to and advancing knowledge around the world. 

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Read more about Dean Veloso here.