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المعهد العالي للأعمال | |
 The Portalis mansion campus building, before its restoration | |
| Type | Privatebusiness school |
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| Established | 5 April 1996 |
| President | Maxence Duault |
Academic staff | approx. 250 (visiting) |
| Address | 289, rue Clemenceau ,,33°53′55″N35°29′21″E / 33.89861°N 35.48917°E /33.89861; 35.48917 |
| Campus | Urban 35,000 square metres (8.6 acres) |
| Affiliations | ESCP Business School |
| Website | www |
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École supérieure des affaires (ESA Business School) is abusiness school located in the district of Clemenceau, Beirut, for executives and managers from Lebanon and theMiddle East. It holds accreditation from theAssociation of MBAs,[1] and has obtained the Business Graduate Association (BGA) label. The school enrolls nearly 550 students annually, as along with 510 students in Executive Education programs.
ESA Business School is managed by theChamber of Commerce and Industry ofParis Ile-de-France Region[2] and is a member of 24 schools.
The initiative to establish a business school in Beirut was driven by professor Fayek Abillama, the president of HEC Alumni Association chapter in Lebanon in collaboration with theParis Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
At early 1995, Jean-Pierre Lafon, former Ambassador ofFrance toLebanon, advocated for stronger French-Lebanese cooperation in the field of education and training. In May 1995, he approached theParis Chamber of Commerce and Industry to implement the project with theBank of Lebanon. A partnership was then set up between theFrench Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bank of Lebanon and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris.
ESA Business School was officially inaugurated on 5 April 1996, in the presence of the President,Jacques Chirac, Lebanese Prime MinisterRafic Hariri. This was marked by an intergovernmental agreement between France and Lebanon and an agreement between the Bank of Lebanon and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Under theOttoman Empire, from 1860, German missions transformed the Levant region into an orphanage and a hospital, built and occupied by the deaconesses ofKaiserswerth on the order of St. John (Johanniterorden) ofJerusalem.
The house of the deaconesses ofBeirut, located on what will later be called the “Clemenceau site”, was inaugurated on 10 March 1862. Saint John Hospital received between 9,000 and 12,000 patients per year, then approximately 14,000 patients in 1893, an average of 50 patients per day. When the Chancellery was set up, the assassination of the French ambassador to Lebanon,Louis Delamare, in 1981 pushed the leaders to move the Embassy. The site was later abandoned.
In 1995, when the idea of creating ESA Business School was started, demining operations were carried out by the military; rehabilitation work was launched byJacques Chirac andRafic Hariri, who inaugurated the opening of the site on 5 April 1996.
The Ecole Supérieure des Affaires hosts approximately 250 visiting international academics and professors from the two centers of Business Higher Education of theParis Chamber of Commerce and Industry:ESCP Business School and HEC group.[3] The ESA is headed by Maxence Duault, who previously served as the deputy director general ofESCP Business School. M. Duault replaced Stéphane Attali in 2019. According to the WBS 2010 ranking, the ESA was ranked first in theMENA region.[4]
