On Friday, May 14th 2010 in Shanghai (China), the French Minister for Industry,
Mr Christian Estrosi, and delegates from France visited Tongji University and SIMBA in the presence of H.E. Hervé Ladsous, Ambassador of France to China, Professor Dong Qi, Vice-President of Tongji University and Professor Tawfik Jelassi, Dean of the ENPC MBA Paris.
Mr. Estrosi took a tour of the Sino-French Center of Engineering and Management and visited SIMBA, the MBA program jointly set up 10 years ago by Tongji University and the ENPC School of International Management in Paris. Dean Jelassi gave Mr. Estrosi a presentation of the history of SIMBA, its educational mission and objectives, as well as its achievements to date.
He also explained the governance structure of SIMBA and its anchoring within the Sino-French Institute of Engineering and Management (IFCIM). Dean Jelassi also presented the profile of SIMBA students, the type of companies the graduates join after finishing the program, and the Alumni Association which has today more than 600 members. After years of development, SIMBA has become the first Sino-foreign MBA program to be accredited by the international AMBA accreditation agency. SIMBA was crowned as the world’s Top 34 in the annual ranking of Executive and Part-Time MBA programs published by the Financial Times in October 2009.
