Kai Peters
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Kai is chief executive of Ashridge, the business school in
Berkhamsted, near London. Ashridge is one of the world's leading
and largest providers of executive education, including open
programmes, tailored programmes, MBA programmes and consultancy.
The business school was founded in an 18th century estate in 1959
and has over 100,000 alumni.
Prior to joining Ashridge, he was dean and previously director
of MBA programmes at the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus
University in the Netherlands.
Kai serves on supervisory and advisory boards for a number of
organisations in the technology and healthcare sectors. He also
serves in various capacities for educational associations including
AACSB, AMBA, EFMD and GMAC. He is owner and was managing director
(1989-1993) of a company in the German publishing sector and has
worked with both IBM and Volkswagen in organisational
development.
Kai writes and lectures on strategy, leadership and management
education for government, business and academic audiences. He holds
degrees from York University, Toronto and the University of Quebec
in Chicoutimi, Canada, and Erasmus University.