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ESMT Berlin opens branch office in China

Today ESMT Berlin opened a branch office in Shanghai, China. With this foreign base, ESMT will expand its executive education programs in Asia and provide a platform for dialogue and communication on urgent business issues in Asia and Europe.

The opening ceremony in Shanghai included the forum “Competition and Cooperation between Chinese and German Business.” The event was attended by members of the ESMT Executive Management Committee, executives of Chinese companies, as well as high-ranking guests from Germany and abroad. With its subsidiary in China, ESMT will support companies in China and Germany to learn from each other in order to advance business activities around the world. ESMT’s expertise in technology management, leadership, European competitiveness, and doing business in Germany provides an important foundation. “With a dedicated office in China, ESMT is intensifying its international focus. This base will allow us to react even more quickly to the special requirements of customers. In this way, we can offer continuing education programs that better meet both the needs of European companies active in Asia and Asian companies doing business in Europe,” said Olaf Plötner, dean of executive education at ESMT. 

 

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ESMT Berlin is a leading global business school with its campus in the heart of Berlin. Founded by 25 global companies, ESMT offers master, MBA, and PhD programs, as well as executive education on its campus in Berlin, in locations around the world, online, and in online blended format. Focusing on leadership, innovation, and analytics, its diverse faculty publishes outstanding research in top academic journals. Additionally, the international business school provides an interdisciplinary platform for discourse between politics, business, and academia. ESMT is a non-profit private institution of higher education with the right to grant PhDs and is accredited by AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS, and ZEvA. It is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across all its activities and communities.