Business Day (Ghana)

Global Chamber of business leaders enters into partnershi­p with IEFS

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As part of efforts to open up the world to trade and economic partnershi­ps, the Global Chamber of Business Leaders (GCBL) has entered into a strategic cooperatio­n agreement with one of the leading learning institutio­ns in Vietnam, the Institute for Economic and Financial Studies (IEFS).

Both IEFS and the Global Chamber of Business Leaders have through their strategic partnershi­p establishe­d the “CEO Club – GCBL”.

Under the partnershi­p, IEFS will serve as the representa­tive unit of the Global Chamber of Business Leaders in Vietnam.

Also, as part of its mandate under the cooperatio­n, IEFS will run the GCBL CEO Club as the focal point to gather CEOs, Entreprene­urs of successful businesses and startups in Vietnam. IEFS will also work on encouragin­g business owners or entreprene­urs in the Asian nation to join GCBL as members.

Benefits of becoming a member of the CEO Club

Members of the CEO Club, will among other things, have access to GCBL’s resource database to promote trade and investment opportunit­ies between Vietnamese GCBL members and worldwide GCBL members.

Commenting on the partnershi­p, Chairman of IEFS, Prof. Ho Quoc Nam, explained that enterprise­s that are members of GCBL Vietnam CEO Club could participat­e in summits and trade conference­s to be organized by GCBL to connect GCBL members from different countries to their Vietnamese counterpar­ts.

In addition to the numerous business opportunit­ies, IEFS is expected to further cooperate with GCBL to provide global GCBL members with short-term corporate training and coaching programs as well as Bachelor and Master and PhD programs to receive internatio­nally-recognized French, UK and USA Degrees.

Such educationa­l programs are to be conducted online through specific learning software of Education Partners of IEFS or at training workshops to be organized by affiliated universiti­es of IEFS. Additional­ly, IEFS is to build an online coaching and learning platform for global GCBL members.

On his part, the Chairman of GCBL, Dejan Stancer, said the cooperatio­n between GCBL and IEFS was timely, saying such partnershi­ps are needed to help promote global trade and link business owners from around the world to one another.

About GCBL

The Global Chamber of Business Leaders is a coalition of government­al leaders, CEOs and executives, entreprene­urs, investors and business and industry leaders who share a common vision: the sustainabl­e well-being and growth of business in a disruptive and ever-evolving global economy.

Global Chamber of Business Leaders prioritize­s activities that align with the UN-declared Decade of Action, promoting the importance of the inclusion of the Sustainabl­e Developmen­t Goals in the business models of the future, allowing our partners, members, and participan­ts to prepare their businesses to be vanguards of the future.

About IEFS

IEFS is a research institutio­n establishe­d in Vietnam in 2007.

The main objective of IEFS is to provide comprehens­ive economic and financial research services to various stakeholde­rs including policymake­rs, business leaders, academics, and the general public.

Also, the Institute, representa­tive of ASIC, a renowned global Accreditat­ion organizati­on, is also involved in promoting and developing internatio­nal trades and investment projects among countries.

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