We put our newly elected CEMS Club Canada Executive team through our "technical questionnaire" to get to know them a little better and learn what they hope to achieve in the upcoming months.
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Minh Tien (MT) Nguyen
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Hometown: |
Bern, Switzerland |
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Undergrad Program & School: |
Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen |
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CEMS Executive Role: |
VP Internal |
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How many languages do you speak? |
5 - Vietnamese, German, English, French, Italian (and Spanish is on the go) |
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How many countries have you traveled to? |
62 |
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be? |
Bora Bora |
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What would you sing at karaoke night? |
Wonderwall from Oasis |
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If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? |
Pho |
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What motivates you to work hard? |
When I see that my work has an impact! |
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One thing you are excited about for the CEMS Program? |
I can only speak for CEMS as an exchange student: Its people and international diversity! |
Alexandra (Sasha) Matovic
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Hometown: |
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada |
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Undergrad Program & School: |
Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance- Western University |
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CEMS Executive Role: |
VP Sustainability |
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How many languages do you speak? |
2= English and French (and learning Spanish at Ivey!) |
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How many countries have you traveled to? |
21 countries and counting |
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be? |
Dublin, Ireland. |
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What would you sing at karaoke night? |
Closer by The Chainsmokers |
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If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? |
Tostadas |
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What motivates you to work hard? |
Seeing the products that perseverance and passion produce. |
| One thing you are excited about for the MSc IB with CEMS Program? |
Combining travel with the incredible global work and educational experiences that the MSc | CEMS program offers. |
Abdul Basharat
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Hometown: |
Burlington, Ontario, Canada |
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Undergrad Program & School: |
BMOS Finance/Aviation, Western University |
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CEMS Executive Role: |
Vice President Alumni & Corporate Relations (External) |
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How many languages do you speak? |
English, French, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi - working on Spanish |
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How many countries have you travelled to? |
Over 10, across Asia, some Europe, Middle East, North America - never been to South America! |
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be? |
Siglufjörður Iceland |
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What would you sing at karaoke night? |
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star |
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If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? |
Sushi |
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What motivates you to work hard? |
Seeing other people push themselves and go out of their comfort zone motivates me to do the same. |
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One thing you are excited about for the MSc IB with CEMS Program? |
I’m going to Paris in September, Hong Kong in January and Managua, Nicaragua in a month - what’s not to be excited about! |
Kateryna Voshchenko
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Hometown: |
Kharkiv, Ukraine |
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Undergrad Program & School: |
Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, Bachelor International Economics |
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CEMS Executive Role: |
VP Marketing |
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How many languages do you speak? |
4= Russian, Ukrainian, English, German and learning Spanish as well |
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How many countries have you travelled to? |
17: USA, Canada, Poland, Russia, Turkey, France, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Finland, Jordan, Crete, Austria, Italy, England, Scotland |
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be? |
Chicago, USA |
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What would you sing at karaoke night? |
Smith Latin |
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If you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? |
Pasta and mint chocolate. |
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What motivates you to work hard? |
People, books and traveling. |
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One thing you are excited about for the MSc IB with CEMS Program? |
Studying in Australia and learning surfing there:) |
Thanks to Communications Team member Mia for putting this blog together! Be sure to check back with the blog later this week as our Get to Know the Class of 2019 series continues!