Post by CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education

The strength of CEMS has always been its people. 🌍 Every year, a new cohort graduates and steps into the world ready to lead responsibly, globally, and with purpose. That's what makes our alumni community so rich: it keeps growing, year after year, with individuals who go on to do extraordinary things! In this post, we meet some of our past Alumni of the Year awardees and the impact they've gone on to make in the world. 💠 2016: Karin Jestin (HEC Paris / Prague University of Economics and Business) 💠2017: Claudia BELLI (Università Bocconi / HEC) 💠2017: Tomas Laboutka (VSE / Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) 💠2018: Akilnathan Logeswaran (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration / Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) 💠2019: Rebekka Grun von Jolk (University of St.Gallen / Louvain School of Management) 💠2024: Marieke Geurts (RSM / Stockholm School of Economics) To every CEMS alum out there doing the work, thank you. 💛 Stay tuned: the 2026 Alumni of the Year awardees will be announced soon! 😉 CEMS Alumni Team CEMS Global Alliance CEMS Student Board