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Action Aid Tanzania Country Director Wins CBS MBA Of The Year Award

This year's respected MBA of the Year award was given to CBS MBA Aida Kiangi, Country Director of Action Aid Tanzania!

Wed Jun 26 2013

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Aida Kiangi, a Copenhagen Business School MBA, has just been awarded the coveted MBA of the Year award by CBS. The award honors an extraordinary MBA who has made significant achievements in his or her career, something that Kiangi has done as Country Director of Action Aid Tanzania.
 
Action Aid Tanzania is a non-profit organisation that is working to help poor communities in the country: “Our goal is to eliminate poverty in Tanzania,” Kiangi said.
 
Kiangi is working towards her goal by providing strategic oversight and developing future strategy for Action Aid Tanzania. So far in her three years with the organisation, she has overseen a merger between Action Aid and another organisation and also has successfully turned around the operations of Actions Aid Tanzania.
 
She said that the skills she acquired as a CBS MBA helped her to achieve these career highlights and to connect the dots between the skills she had already gained during her previous role in management consulting. Kiangi would recommend anyone working in the non-profit sector to take up an MBA.
 
“An MBA provides some of the hard skills that we don’t generally get from just doing development studies,” Kiangi said. “It gives an insight into areas of efficiency and strategy development that can have a huge impact on the organisation.”
 
The skills Kiangi gained during her experience at CBS allowed her to make large strides at Action Aid Tanzania, which contributed to her winning the MBA of the Year award. The past few years have been a full-circle journey for Kiangi!
 
“Winning the title is a great vindication of the work I have done,” Kiangi said. “It is confidence-building and humbling at the same time, and it implies that my career and work is being recognised by my peers, which means a great deal.”
 

 

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