In partnership with the CAVIE (African Center for Business Intelligence and Intelligence), the ESG MBA is launching the “MBA Economic Intelligence and Financial Markets”. It trains professionals in the monitoring, investigation, processing, dissemination, security, influence, and production of economic and financial intelligence useful to decision-makers active in Africa.
With CAVIE President, Guy Gweth, Founder of Knowdys Consulting Group and Head of Doing Business in Africa at Centrale Supelec, this MBA appeals to experts specialized in African issues such as the Malian banker Cheickna Bounajim Cissé, Chairman of the Banking & Competitiveness Commission of CAVIE.
This innovative MBA is tailored to meet the economic and financial information needs of Africa. It aims at the following objectives:
Conduct economic and financial investigations in Africa.
Collect and process information from human and technological sources.
Identify informal places of power and decision-making circuits.
Influencing public decision at the African and international levels.
Carry out information and counter-information operations.
Audit and protect the information assets of an organization.
Generate competitiveness through high added value information.
For Prof. Ababacar Mbengue, HEC PhD, Senior Associate Professor of Management in Sub-Saharan Africa and speaking on the MBA: “The growing needs of international economic operators have put such pressure on African markets that it is urgent to create a program capable of training professionals of a new type in terms of responsiveness, flexibility, precision, innovation, control of the African terrain and openness to the world. The Economic Intelligence MBA and African markets respond very precisely to this expectation. ”
Another innovation, the IAE Africa Prize was instituted. It will reward each year, the beneficiaries of this MBA who have solved a concrete problem of economic intelligence in Africa