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Matt Symonds | |
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| Born | (1968-12-09)9 December 1968 (age 56) United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Euro MBA Tour |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, author |
Matt Symonds (born 9 December 1968) is a British entrepreneur and author.
Symonds is founder of the QS World MBA Tour, an international organiser of business school events in over 40 countries, MD of the graduate education consultancy, SymondsGSB, and founder of the MaKi Network Business Media Conference.[1] He is co-author withAlain de Mendonca of the bestselling guide to business schools,ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge, sponsored byGoldman Sachs andMcKinsey & Co.
In 1995, he founded the business school event Euro MBA Tour, organising a Paris Fair to introduce business schools to potential MBA applicants. In 1998, he partnered with Nunzio Quacquarelli, editor of the TopMBA Career Guide to create the QS World MBA Tour.
The Euro MBA Tour operates in over 40 countries, attracting more than 60,000 visitors every year to meet with 380 business schools. Participating business schools include UC BerkeleyHaas School of Business, CambridgeJudge Business School,Ceibs,Chicago GSB,Columbia Business School, CornellS.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, DukeFuqua School of Business,EM Lyon,ESADE,Harvard Business School,HEC,HKUST,IE,IESE,IMD,INSEAD,Kellogg School of Management Northwestern,London Business School,New York University Stern School of Business,Oxford Saïd Business School,Rotterdam School of Management,Tuck School of Business, UNCKenan-Flagler Business School,UCLA Anderson School of Management, Univ. MichiganRoss School of Business, Univ. VirginiaDarden School,Wharton School,Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the Yale SOM.
Symonds contributes to a number of international publications on business education and management, includingThe Economist,[2]BusinessWeek,[3]Forbes,[4]The Times,[5]Handelsblatt,[6] andThe Independent.[7]
