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The Official Selection is the result of the work of an International Scientific Committee gathered at the initiative of SMBG, the French leading consultancy in student orientation and human resources.
 This International Scientific Committee is composed of 11 members coming from the five continents:
- 9 expert members, each representing a geographical area to cover the entire planet: Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia & Middle-East, Far Eastern Asia, Latin America, North America, Oceania, Western Europe;
- 2 executive members: the CEO of SMBG, the French leading consultancy on students orientation which is at the initiative of this project, and the International coordinator of EDUNIVERSAL, in his function as rapporteur;
Together, they decide of the Official Selection, they control the voting processes, and they work on improving the methodology of EDUNIVERSAL.
THE 9 EXPERT MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
AFRICA
Prof. Eon Smit is director of the University of Stellenbosch business school (South Africa).
He is also former president of SABSA (South African Business School Association), founding
member of AABS (Association of African Business Schools), and member
of the advisory board of Hull University Business School (U.K.).
CENTRAL ASIA
Prof. Aneeta Madhok Dr. Aneeta Madhok (PhD, CMC, GPHR) is Director at Open Spaces
Consulting and has been the Dean (Center for Human Resources) at S.P. Jain Center of
Management, Dubai and Singapore and Dean (School of Business) at NMIMS University
in India.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council of
Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) and is a global expert on Management Education
specially in the areas of Human Resources and Management Consulting.
EASTERN EUROPE
Prof. Virginijus Kundrotas is a Founding President of ISM University of Management & Economics (Lithuania).
After 9 years working in this position he is currently having a Saba
tical year from July 1, 2008. Specialized in business ethic and leadership, he is also president
of BMDA (Baltic Management Development Association), vice-president of
CEEMAN(Central and East European Management Development Association), and member of the
EQUIS accreditation committee.
EURASIA & MIDDLE-EAST
Prof. Nehme Azoury occupies the position of dean of the faculty of management of Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (Lebanon).
In addition, he is the Secretary General of the
Arab Society of Faculties of Business Administration. Former consultant, he is the editor
of the electronic magazine of USEK-AUF, the agency of French-speaking world universities,
and has been the editor of the Arab Economic Business Journal. He also lectures in the fields of
marketing and strategy.
FAR EASTERN ASIA
Prof. Sung Joo Park is the former Dean and Vice president of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology). He is currently a professor at KAIST Business School.
Holding a PhD from Michigan State University, he was also the founding president of AAPBS
(Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools,) and served as a board member of the AACSB and is
now a board member of the GFME (Global Foundation for Management Education).
LATIN AMERICA
Prof. Edson Luiz Riccio is a well-established researcher and an associate professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he holds many responsibilities, including:
president of the International Cooperation Office of the faculty of economics and
management (FEA-USP), and director of TECSI, a research laboratory on technology and
information system.
NORTH AMERICA
With a M.S. degree at Stanford University (U.S.A.) after an engineering degree at
Ecole Centrale Paris (France), Prof. Michel Nedzela is an associate dean and associate
professor of the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa (Canada).
Besides his involvement in different academic projects in the Maghreb, he is also an associate
dean at Euromed Marseille (France), and the academic director of the Bucharest School
of Management (Romania).
OCEANIA
Prof. Michael Wood retired after eight years as executive dean of Curtin Business
School (Australia) which became under his mandate the first Australian business
school to receive international accreditations (EQUIS, 2001).
University of Western Australia, he has specialized in the field of management in the public
sector and has a 17 years experience in teaching and research in several business schools and 4 Australian
universities.
WESTERN EUROPE
Axel Schumacher is Associate Dean for International Relations at the European Business School, International University Schloss Reichartshausen (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel and Wiesbaden (Germany).
Previously he was Director of International Programmes at WHU,
Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). He has been working in the field of International Relations for more than 20 years.
Over this period he has initiated more than 200 university partnerships in 45 countries around the globe, including 35 dual degree
agreements at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has published research papers and contributed to books on the Concept of
Private Universities in Germany and on Strategies of Internationalization for Business Schools.
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