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ALUMNI NEWS
MBA10 StUDentS
VISIT EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
The Finance Club of the MBA
study association of the Rotterdam
School of Management, Erasmus
University organised its first event
for the year with fifty MBA10
students paying a group visit to
the European Commission in
Brussels, Belgium on February
27th. The goal was to get
acquainted with the most
important institution in European
Economy, and to learn about the
trade and competition policies of
the EU. Among the benefits for
the student group was a much
better insight into the functioning
of the European Commission
and its role and influence on
member countries.
JOUrneYS WITH ERASMUS
RSM’s EU-based alumni have been turning out
in unprecedented numbers for Journeys With
Erasmus (JWE), a series of business-focused
events in which prominent thinkers present
their opinions on today’s hottest business
topics. JWE events are not just conferences
– they provide the alumni present an
opportunity to debate with the experts.
These have included Ivo H. Daalder, foreign
policy adviser to the Obama presidential
campaign and currently nominated as US
50 RSM OUTLOOK SUMMER 2009
rSM StUDent tUrnS DreAM OF A Better wOrLD
INTO UNDERWATER REALITY
RSM MScBA student Vincent Kneefel, an
underwater photographer, recently took
part in a competition called Create Your
World - part of the Rotterdam European
Youth Capital 2009 initiative, which called
for young people to submit their ultimate
dream of how they would take action to
change the world. Vincent’s dream was to
create awareness of the beauty and diversity
– and fragility - of our oceans. “Commercial
fishing, pollution, habitat destruction,
development and global warming all are
threatening to irreversibly deplete our
valuable ocean resources,” he says. Vincent
and four other winning ‘dreamers’ were
selected from over 4,000 ideas submitted.
He receives a budget of 10,000 Euros, plus
expert coaching, to realise his winning
dream: the launch of an educational
programme for children in cooperation with
the Marine Dream Organisation (Stichting
Marine Dream), to be followed by an
expedition to the Azores to photograph
whales and dolphins. Additionally, Vincent
is organising World Ocean Day on 8 June
at the Erasmus University Rotterdam
campus, which includes speakers Fabien
Cousteau (grandson of Jacques);
Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd founder Paul
Watson; and other experts.“Our generation
can do something about the mistakes that
have been made over the past 50 years,”
Vincent says. “If we don’t deal with it now,
life in the oceans will be lost forever.”
For more information on World Ocean Day:
www.worldoceanday.nl
For Vincent Kneefel’s photography:
www.vincentkneefel.nl
Ambassador to NATO; Dr. Noreena Hertz;
and Peter Paul de Vries, former director
of the Vereniging van Effectenbezitters
(VEB), former head of Euroshareholders,
and currently CEO of Value 8 NV.
Videos of past events, related research
articles, and information on future events
can be found on the Alumni section of
www.rsm.nl, under Impacting Business:
Journeys with Erasmus.