AIESEC UAE Alumni Newsletter February 2011 by Dmitriy Dmitriev

Welcome elcome to AIESEC United U Arab Emirates “AIESEC is the world’s largest youth organization, bringing together over 50,000 university students across 110 countries. Our network connects high-potential people interested in Leadership and Management and provides them the opportunity to develop their skills in a practical environment. AIESEC also provides members with the opportunity to work abroad in areas from management, human resources, marketing, information rmation technology, cultural education and linguistics in any one of our 10,000 internships globally each year. Additionally AIESEC fosters leadership for a positive impact on society by providing 12,000 leadership positions at local, national and international levels each year.”

“The international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential”

Message from the president AIESEC United Arab Emirates in 2010/2011 Dear alumni, Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter from AIESEC in the UAE. The new year has started off strongly for us with 4 incoming internships facilitated and realized and one 1 outgoing. AIESEC UAE is keen on providing these life changing experiences experien to the youth of the UAE through its exchange program. Once again we would like to acknowledge all of our partners and alumni that help in facilitating the exchange program as its a life changing opportunity for one young person and your support is what helps us in creating this impact. Another highlight of the year so far is our National Leadership Development Seminar that took place at Zayed University Dubai. AIESEC members took part in leadership sessions and trainings so that they are prepared for taking up leadership positions in the future. At the same conference the next President of AIESEC UAE was selected in the form of Miss Yana Makaveeva from Bulgaria. I am very confident that Yana will lead the organization into greater heights during her term starting in July. 2011 has started out as a good year so far for AIESEC UAE and we are looking forward to even bigger things with the coming few months.

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Yours truly, Hamad Taher President of AIESEC in the United Arab Emirates 2010/11

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy Activating Leadership is one of 6 values, which guides our organization during d more than 60 years. Day by day we develop agents of positive changes in our unique learning environment. We believe that through creation of diverse and specific learning opportunities for our members, we are helping them to develop their talent and making impact in their personal and professional growth. On 10th-12th February 2011 AIESEC in the United Arab Emirates had realized National Leadership Development Seminar. Main objectives from this conference were were to give members’ strategic understanding of AIESEC, to prepare our members for future leadership roles and to unite AIESEC UAE together. During this 3 days our members learned how manage team in a right way, how to communicate as a leader, how to motivate ate and coach their members. Also they understand importance of leadership in AIESEC and challenge themselves as future leaders of our organization. Caring about development of each young person who getting to know with AIESEC, as a part of this conference we had Inter--Cultural Cultural Development Seminar for our future Exchange Participants. During this seminar people get to know what AIESEC is and what they can or cannot expect from organization. Each delegate of IDS participated in discussions about “How to be a good ambassador” of the country and learned how to deal with cultural shock and differences. As a conference manager I want to say special recognition to our chair Gail Rego, Alumni of AIESEC Dubai, Dubai for positive energy and conference mood. At the same time I want to thank for our incredible ble team of facilitators, who during 3 day were educating and developing our members, share with them their knowledge and experience, motivate them and inspiring for future achievements. This people are: Hamad Taher, MCP of AIESEC UAE Marie Zouzelkova, MC VP ICX of AIESEC UAE Dmitry Dmitriev, MC VP ER of AIESEC UAE Regina Kambulatova, MC VP P OGX of AIESEC UAE Maryna Silchenko, Alumna of AIESEC Ukarine, MCVP in AIESEC Ghana, intern in Turkey Reham Damanhouri, Alumna of AIESEC Egypt, AIESEC UAE intern in Alcatel-Lucent Dino Babić,, Alumnus of AIESEC Croatia, AIESEC UAE intern in Naseba Sakina Al Balochi, LCP of LC ZUD Guneet Makkar, LCP of LC DIAC Nawaz Latif, VP Business Development of LC DIAC In order to bring more value to education and development of our members AIESEC has invited some of its National Partners. During our Leadership Seminar Semin it was pleasure to host IE Business School workshop where students have learnt about opportunities to study abroad and how leadership is perceived. Lisaveta Bachina NLDS Conference Manager

NEXT GENERATION IS COMING AIESEC UAE is proud to announce next national leadership team: President of AIESEC United Arab Emirates 2011/2012 became Yana Makaveeva, current Vice President Finance of AIESEC Bulgaria! Makaveeva, Bul She, as elected President, was responsible for selection of new national team of our country. Together with current national team, after reviewing 15 applications, after 2 weeks of interviews, chats and assessments Member Committee 2011/2012 has been announced!

Vice President, Pr who will be responsible for Incoming International Internship Program during next year, became Elena Solina, Solina, current Local Committee President of AIESEC in Moscow, Russia Vice President, President who will be responsible for Outgoing International Internship Interns Program and will work with universities, students and recent graduates during next year, became Carolina Zheng, current Vice President of AIESEC in Hanan University, China Vice President, President who will be responsible for Talent Management during next year, became Nishant Sharma,, current Local Committee President of AIESEC in Jalandhar,, India National team is not completed yet. We are still searching for Vice President External Relations and second round of applications already opened! Results Results will be available after 20th of March.

International internship program Our global exchange program is giving you an opportunity to get the top talented students and recent graduates from all around the world, who will join your company/organization for a certain period of time as employees. Our global exchange program is giving you an opportunity to get the top talented students from around the world, who will join your company.

Internships realized within January & February 2011 Company: Sundance Events FZ LLC, Dubai Intern: Melina Andre, France Internship description: Event management. Coordinates projects and liaises with all suppliers ensuring a seamless development.. Working on the gathering information for new projects.

Company: Network Arabia FZCO, Dubai Intern: Evan Francese, USA Internship description: Research on travel and destinations worldwide cities.. Editing the blog of the company and working on promotion of the company via the company webpages.

Company: Naseba, Dubai Interns: Dino Babic, Croatia & Nina Kalitina, Russia Internship description: Project management/Marketing. Creating a comprehensive project marketing strategy and timeline. Managing assigned product's branding and promotion. Ensuring the promotion of the projects.

Internships starting by the beginning of March 2011 Company: Sundance Events FZ LLC, Dubai Intern: Carolina Gomez, Colombia Internship description: Event management. Coordinates projects and liaises with all suppliers ensuring a seamless development.. Working on the gathering information for new projects. Company: Kraft Foods Middle East & Africa Ltd., Dubai Intern: Ali Demir Kutlay, Turkey Internship description: Brand management/ Marketing Working on the given promotion campaigns. Developing a support plan based on the brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategy, Looking at new ways to develop the brand; Managing the brandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget. budget

For more information feel free to contact: Vice President for Business Development Marie Zouzelkova marie.zouzelkova@aiesec.net Mob: 0567348403

The 4th Leadership Forum A PLATFORM FOR YOUTH TO VOICE AND DISCOVER THEIR CONCERNS THE 4th AIESEC LEADERSHIP FORUM “YOULEAD” organised by AIESEC, in partnership with Dubai World Trade Centre, aims to empower Emirati youth with the confidence to make well informed life choices to develop their career goals. It is an open platform for UAE youth to express their opinion on education, career and entrepreneurship opportunities in the country. The two-days forum taking place from March 22nd-23rd at the Careers’ UAE exhibition will bring together over 300 UAE university students, government and industry leaders to identify how the private and public sector can work together to address the concerns of the youth.

Benefits

Audience

Employer Branding o Positive media representation Access to youth opinion o Values and attitudes of next generation (of leaders) Access to top talent o Company HR positioning

300+ selected delegates 10+ partner organisations 10+ Universities & Institutions

Career progression

Entrepreneurship & Leadership

Top national media outlets

Impact on society o Invest in the development of local young leadership

Workshops & Topics

Industry specialists Awareness to 15 000 students

International Experience

Points of involvement:

The day has been designed as a forum where current and future leaders learn from each other through interactive workshops, open spaces and discussions. For more information feel free to contact: Vice President for External Relations Dmitry Dmitriev dmitry.dmitriev@aiesec.net Mob: 056 734 8404

NATIONAL PARTNERS Partners