Chairman of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company (NAHCO, Aviance), Suleiman Yahya has been appointed Ambassador for IDPNetwork in Nigeria.
INSEAD is a graduate business school with campuses in Europe; Fontainebleau, France, Asia (Singapore), and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi).
INSEAD which is in the category of Havard Business School, was founded in 1957 by venture capitalist and Harvard professor Georges Doriot, along with Claude Janssen and Olivier Giscard d’Estaing.
The school offers various academic programmes, including a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme, Executive MBA (EMBA) programme, a Master in Finance programme, a PhD in management programme, and a variety of executive education programmes.
In a correspondence to Yahyah, the IDPN Committee said that the appointment as Ambassador is for an initial period of one year.
Responding to the letter of appointment, Yahyah told newsmen that this is an opportunity for him to bring INSEAD and campus to Africa, and to broaden the awareness of INSEAD in Africa.
Yahyah who bags a First Class Degree in Economics and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Cambridge University England is also the chairman of Lafarge Ashaka Cement Plc, a leading cement producer in Nigeria. He also chairs the Abuja Business Council.
The new Ambassador is an advocate of best practice in Corporate Governance. He is the first African to be certified as a Corporate Governance Director of INSEAD. [myad]
