Graduation will be live webcast at 3pm Saturday July 28th 2012

Honored GEMBA Speaker: Maya Angelou

About GEMBA:

In partnership with Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and the acclaimed ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) is a dynamic program carefully designed for highly accomplished executives. This unique and powerful partnership includes a broad view of geopolitics, policy, and regulation to bring a greater richness to the program. GEMBA goes beyond traditional models to deliver an MBA that capitalizes on global learning for executives. Students are educated in the essentials of a world-class MBA degree provided in an innovative, format through six two-week modules at locations around the world. Each module is progressively built upon previous modules and is interwoven with opportunities to interact with authors, business leaders, researchers, CEOs, and policy makers.

About Maya Angelou:

Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Dr. Angelou has served on two presidential committees, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000, the Lincoln Medal in 2008, and has received 3 Grammy Awards. President Clinton requested that she compose a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. Dr. Angelou’s reading of her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” was broadcast live around the world. She serves as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

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