Jember Teklu Tesfay (MBA 21) is a finalist at AMBA's annual excellence awards

 

 

At the beginning of each year, the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and BGA host an annual awards evening to celebrate excellence among business schools, students, graduates, suppliers, and employers that share AMBA & BGA’s values of ambition, impact and integrity.

Audencia is thrilled that Full-Time MBA alumna Jember Teklu Tesfay (MBA 2021) was shortlisted for AMBA’s Student of the Year award. With competition from AMBA-accredited business schools across the globe, this award recognises students who have shown exceptional career potential and who AMBA believes can act as ambassadors for the high quality of accredited MBAs and the opportunities these programmes provide for students from a wide range of different personal and professional backgrounds. 

Jember is a young professional from Ethiopia with a first degree in hotel management. Prior to joining the full-time MBA programme at Audencia, Jember clocked up 8 years of experience in sales, customer relations, recruitment and humanitarian services. By the age of 22, she was managing a team of 150. 

To the question “What does the world need more of?” Jember answers without hesitating “More listeners” and in 2018, she joined the United Nations Global Compact for Migration (GCM), which aims to build safe and orderly pathways for people migrating. This was a tough and hugely demanding experience but Jember’s empathy and capacity to listen allowed her to find the satisfactions that she was seeking in the successful outcomes for the refugees she was helping. This period was also when she decided to study for an MBA. 

Jember is fluent in Amharic and English and is currently learning French. Since the summer of 2021, she has been rising to the challenge of working in France as a CRM Marketing Manager at BlaBlaCar, the French online ride-sharing company.

The winner, announced at during the online awards ceremony, was Monique Farquharson from Aston Business School. ​Audencia Alumni and the MBA Management team would like to congratulate Jember for raising the visibility of her school by reaching the final of this category. Find out more about the categories, finalists and winners of the awards.