Entre los mejores estudiantes de MBA del mundo

The Independent, 15 de octubre de 2009.

Andrés Barragán, CEO de .Puntoaparte Editores entre los mejores estudiantes de MBA del mundo.

Amba Student Of The Year Award: Students from Africa, South America and the USA are nominated

Jeannette Adu-Bobie was born in Kenya and is now at Imperial College London seeking to understand the growth of deadly bacteria. Lindsey Nefesh-Clarke lives in Paris and works for Enfants d'Aise, the humanitarian organisation that helps children living in desperate conditions. The American Tiffany Wang Lam-Balfour has crossed the globe to take advantage of her Chinese heritage to help her to understand the cultural and business barriers between the East and West. And the Colombian Andrés Barragá*Montaña is passionate about bringing together the arts and business to promote and celebrate local talent in his homeland.

This diversity shows just how far the MBA qualification has grown in breadth and stature since the first awards were given to company managers in the late 19th century, says Jeanette Purcell, Amba's chief executive. Collaboration with other students and team working may be the critical to successful MBA programmes, but in this competition there can be only one winner, which will be announced at a gala dinner this November. It will be a difficult decision for the judges to make when they have finalists of this calibre.

Andrés Barragán Montaña

Empowering communities is close to the heart of Andrés Barragán Montaña, 33, who believes entrepreneurial and management skills could lift many talented, creative people in Colombia out of poverty. "This is my life's project: to show that culture and business are not only compatible but also necessary to make an impact, especially in countries such as mine. The precarious cultural scene could be turned into a fertile ground for entrepreneurship if local talent could be handled and capitalised through management," he says.

Earlier in his life, he fought to bridge the divide between arts and science, gaining degrees in literature and industrial engineering while pursuing a successful musical career as a rock guitarist. He also founded a publishing firm that has helped cultural bodies gain publicity and new sources of income. Since starting on a part-time MBA programme at the Universidad de los Andes last year.

"Creativity, art and culture not only benefit from management, but also need it desperately to survive in today's society," he says.

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