Dean of Lagos Business School, Dr Enase Okonedo is the new chairperson of the board of the Association of African Business Schools (AABS). She takes over this month from Jonathan Cook of Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) South Africa.
AABS is an association of leading business schools in Africa established to promote excellence in business and management education, thus upgrading the skill of managers across the continent.
During her two-year tenure, Okonedo said her objective is to grow the number of schools in the AABS network so that more schools can benefit from the association. She also aims to help the schools raise their standard to enable them offer business education of global standards that also meets the peculiar needs of their respective economies.
Lagos Business School will be hosting the AABS Annual Meetings and Round Table Symposium as well as the Research in the Practice of Management workshop in May 2012.
Currently AABS has 25 member schools including University of Dar Es Salaam Business School, Tanzania, Strathmore Business School, Kenya, University of Cape Town Business School, South Africa, and American University of Cairo, Egypt.
