Executive Short Program
Geopolitics, Global Risks and Strategic Leadership - Contextualized for Africa
- Online
- Oct 19 2026
- 4 days
- English
- 3200 €*
Since 2007, HEC Paris has been supporting African leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs through its Executive Education programs. Focused on leadership, governance, innovation, and organizational transformation, these programs combine internationally recognized academic excellence with expertise in African contexts, delivered both in-person and online.
Driven by a new generation of visionary leaders, Africa is reshaping the future through new models of governance, performance and competitiveness. To support this transformation, HEC Paris has developed a truly international learning experience, with flagship programs delivered in person across Africa and France, as well as online, enabling participants to combine local relevance with the world's leading management practices. To complement its online portfolio, HEC Paris Executive Education launched the Africa's Finest initiative. Designed specifically for the continent, it combines HEC Paris' world-class academic excellence with Africa's realities, opportunities and ambitions. Through a curated selection of flagship online programs contextualized for Africa, enriched by local business cases, company examples and expert speakers from across the continent, the initiative helps executives, entrepreneurs and decision-makers strengthen their impact, accelerate organizational transformation and unlock sustainable growth.
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Twenty times larger in twenty-five years. That is what has happened to assets under management in private equity, and investing in the asset class has become much more common for a wide range of investors. The past three or four years slowed the pace. Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor at HEC Paris and academic director of the Executive MSc in Finance, puts that down to interest rates. The long-term trend has held.
By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI transformation.
Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has spent over a decade on the boards of listed, private, and non-profit organisations - watching purpose decisions get made from the inside.
Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.
*Net price, as HEC Paris is not subject to VAT. The prices indicated may vary depending on the intake dates. When multiple starting dates are available, the price shown corresponds to the first date listed. Program, faculty and course content are also subject to change.