As my first post on this brand new blog I have decided to discuss one of my latest projects. I study at King’s College London. It’s a brilliant university where I have been offered many great opportunities. Last term I received an intriguing email about the St Gallen Wings of Excellence awards, inviting students to participate and decided that the opportunity was too great to miss. I sent my contribution and recently received news that my paper was selected as one of the 100 best contributions. I simply cannot wait to go to the Symposium.

The topic of the 40th Symposium is ‘Entrepreneurs – Agents of Change’. Any post graduate student in the world is invited to send in their contribution and out of all the contributions they receive a panel of judges selects the best 100. The lucky ones are then invited to the Symposium, free of any charge, which takes place in St Gallen, Switzerland, in May. In addition, the best 3 pieces out of those 100 selected contributions receive the award and a prize money. This is the best opportunity as a student to participate in discussions about the world around yourself, politics, business and any major current topic that you may be interested in. Many leaders of today from all around the globe participate in this event each year and it is a real privilege to be invited.

My contribution is titled ‘Entrepreneurs – Craftsmen of a more sustainable global economy’. In this work I felt it was important to discuss the future challenges entrepreneurs are going to face and I suggest news tracks to look for opportunities. I am not certain whether or not I am allowed to publish it here for now so I will not. Should I be able to publish it here I will edit.

I am interested in hearing from anyone who is also going to the Symposium this May or if you have gone to past symposiums.

Now I’m off to make myself a nice new business card and print many copies of it! Actually, I was planning on opening this blog anyway but later. This and a few other opportunities I am lucky to get at the moment have made me speed up the process of building the blog: I want to use it partly as a way to promote my cv and work and do some business networking. I am interested in any opportunity that presents itself. Giving a business card with the address of this blog on it seems to me the most efficient and interesting way to do this!