 So to introduce you to SBA, first of all SBA represents the elite and the elite is an acronym actually to say excellence, so excellence in delivery, excellence in the students records, excellence in the type of programs that we offer. The L stands for leadership for all the leadership opportunities that we provide the students throughout their experience in SBA, whether it is curriculum or co-curriculum oriented inclusiveness. I believe you must know by now that AUS including SBA is one of the most, is the number one actually most international university in the world, not even in the region. And so we are very inclusive, we consider, we are inclusive in the way we teach, in the way we behave and in the way we think. T stands for teamwork, so teamwork skills are very important and they are enhanced both in student extracurricular activities as well as with your work coursework. And finally ethics, we uphold the highest standards of ethics in the School of Business Administration, so all of this put together is elite, so SBA represents the elite. Next, so why focus on AUS or why choose SBA? AUS as an institution is among the top 50 around the world for universities under 50, so young universities among the top 50 in the world. We are a top among the top universities in the Arab region for the past five years in a row every single year. We are the top private university in the UAE and the best in the Middle East for studies in business and management. So you are in the right place today. I will leave now the floor to our associate dean, Dr. Mohsen Saad to walk you, offers to you. Back to you, Mohsen. Thank you, Dean, and thank you for the person. I could feel you, I could see your faces and directly talk to you, but in this online setting we'll do our best. So let's do that together. So perhaps as you join SBA and we are a wonderful, wonderful academic institution AUS is and SBA the School of Business is a wonderful major for you to pursue. Perhaps as you're going through this, you're thinking, which major should I learn? And we do offer quite a variety of majors. They're complementary, though. So if you look at the list, you will see accounting, economics, finance, management, management information systems and marketing. Each and every one of these majors is represented by the heads who help you address your questions as we go. So keep that thought in mind. The way I perceive the world, the world eats a holistic view of business education. So perhaps you're thinking of these and thinking, which one should I do? Should I do this one over that one? Or should I specialize in one over the other? And here is some good news to you. The good news is that you don't have to decide now. So the way in SBA we run our education, we recognize that this is an important decision that most likely will last with you for the rest of life. So we understand that this is a big responsibility. So instead what we do in our education, the way we hand approach it is that we give you the first two years to be common. So we teach you a little bit of accounting, a little bit of economics, a little bit of management, a little bit of finance, MIS and marketing. We give you quite an exposure. And after you have sensed and learned a little bit at the introductory level of each and every, now you are in a better position perhaps to decide which field you want to specialize in. And that's a great thing because as you go out and as things are changed, the world is becoming more and more modern. Life is in the business life, it's getting complex. The topics are being integrated. So it is great that you know each one. And it is wonderful perhaps to succeed is to be having an area of specialization. So you specialize in one of these things, but that does not mean you cannot earn another complimentary field in addition to your area of specialization. That's where miners would take in. So for example, you could be torn between two majors normally, for example, accounting and finance management that MIS something like that. And then if you really can't make up your mind, perhaps you really want to know one thing, but you don't want to miss on the other. So we give you the opportunity to do a minor think of it is another opportunity for you to earn more specialization, perhaps not so much as you would do in a major, but you would still know it enough for you to pursue things in business career in that as well. So together you would have academically speaking, you will be having a major and area of specialization, a minor that's that compliments in it in a way or compliments your interests. We can talk about that as well. Miners in in SBA or they can come from all over the university. So there are miners that come from SBA, every major has a minor and there are additional to those for outside the major. So for example, we have a minor in SCM and then the miners can come from outside SBA. So miners are quite wide and they can they can serve more than a purpose and we can talk so much about them. But the idea what I want to stress to you today is that we provide a wealth of information so that you are perfected before. Hopefully to the best you can before you join the later course. We do understand very much that it is not just academics. So we try as well to do as much to prove to introduce you to to apply knowledge. So for example, we do offer major minor, those are academics, classrooms, you walk in, you learn, you're tested, you assess, you do well, you pass, you succeed, you recognize and that's all fantastic. But we do more. So for example, we so far we have more than 100 students who have received the Bloomberg market certifications. These students and I from the bottom of my heart, I hope you are one of them because you will distinguish yourself because now you are learning outside academics applied knowledge. And this is valued by your employers so that when you graduate out of here, your resume stands up on top of every other resume that is competing with you. So you're hopefully being selected for a wonderful opportunity in life on which you can build a great career. So we have we give scholarships for the CFA more than 62 students have thus far received and the CFA but here is the news. They don't just receive the scholarships to sit for the exams, they pass the exams. And others from other places, it takes them time, it takes them preparatory in the finance department, we do a great deal of knowledge and learning so that our students and so that their students pass this this examination level one and so that they are distinguished. And as a matter of fact, in each and every major and minor that we offer in the school we focus on knowledge, we focus on skills we focus on competencies, so that once again, you are distinguished and as as the dean said you are one of the elite you are one of the elite because of a lot of hard work that comes behind it because it is by design, your success is our work. So outside the CFA and Bloomberg certifications we have the CPA, the CIA, the CMA and other wonderful opportunities and certifications and other majors. All right, so this is academics, but to have a more a more holistic life, more holistic view of what is waiting for you and then again what's waiting for you something wonderful is that the student organizations in SBA. The SBA is is is a jewel in that sense because we do offer our students way too many and and we wish we can offer more and we do offer more student organizations where not only they learn academics in the classroom but they go and they form societies and we work extremely closely with them. Our student organizations are either served in vision or the mission of the department and then you have each department has its own student organization. And that would be, for example, the DTMI for the Department of Management, C for economics, MMC for marketing, finance executives for finance, tasks for accounting. But also, we do have student organizations at the school level where you tend to work with the with the with the schools leadership team. So that would be dbt and beta gamma sigma, which is the highest honor society for for our students together. This is a great deal of activities and we strongly work with our students we encourage them we love them to do these things because they will learn what does it mean to serve. They will learn what does it mean to contribute to make a change and to build on whatever leadership skills they have to grow it so that they are distinguished when they grow when they go outside SBA and the school in general. So, academics, student life, both are vibrant for both are exciting and both are complimented. Yeah, so but but here is the thing, the success is planned and we understand that and it is our what we do is, you may not know this but we spend so much time thinking together how do we make you succeed. We understand also that what's ahead is a balance and time you want to be to be great in your classroom you want to do student life you want to do all of this. So we support. So we provide you an environment that is very supportive student friendly student focused and focused on supporting you achieve the kinds of things the aspirations that you have all the positive things that you have in mind all the ones all the things that you want to achieve. So in SBA we do have in house advice and what that means is that we have full time staff who will sit with you who will talk to by the hand, explain to you the courses explain to you what which courses you take. They will draw for you courses schedule so that you graduate on time or hopefully before time it is or or or any kind like how do you combine this major with that mind all kinds of things we provide support in. We have at the support level, the advising level, not just this time. Our faculty is the best source. Our faculty is so great and they come from with different background different experiences from all over the world and they would love to sit with you and they would love to tell you all the all the all the advising that you wouldn't get from outside. It's a wealth of advising resources. In addition to that we have a new innovation, a new initiative actually called the BLC business learning center. So business learning center is mostly mostly focused on tutoring our students who need a little bit of helps in the introductory courses. So we do have a reservation system, we do have a system we have the tutors in place and these tutors already if you look at the two pictures, one of them at the top is by Omar is a student whom I work with very closely is actually tutoring other two students and what you see in these two pictures is something really nice. You see on the top Omar is tutoring to around a round table and then below you will see one on one. So we offer student tutoring in different ways either directed one on one that our any group setting all depends on the need and what what is the right thing to do at that specific moment. So, in addition to, and by the way, we take care of the expenses. This is that we are able to do so. In addition to this, we do have the career office the career this the career developmental services as, as represented by a professional who is with us full time Eleni, she's with us, please if you have questions you can direct it to her. Eleni works very hard everywhere searching for opportunities, so for your internship and placement, but more so, as I would explain to you because Eleni is focused on building that skills and gaps that takes that that bridge between what is knowledge what is purely need and she serves a wonderful job of bridging these two words together. Yes. So facilities. So, a beautiful building. The School of Business Administration building is a beautiful gorgeous building. It's a beautiful it's a professional it is a resource and it's clean. It's everything you wish to have or expect to have in a university of university of our caliber. On the left hand side, you will see classrooms, our classrooms, or we have small classrooms, large classrooms. These are small classrooms. You have the professor in the center and as you can tell the professors in both cases they're focusing on their students there are screens. It is technology equipped. It's just fantastic. On the right hand side, you will see a picture of how a big classroom would look like but it is mainly mostly for meetings, not necessarily for our teachings our teachings happen in mostly in small classrooms. And then below you will see this to the faculty body. This is us meeting, perhaps by it relates to the school. Yes, we have the library. The library is obviously outside SBA. And if you look at this building, it speaks in this picture, it speaks for itself. It's fantastic and how beautiful it is. But I think the message here is the following. You have the academics and the classroom. You have the student life outside the classroom, student organizations, and then we have the support in the middle. But our knowledge, your knowledge is not going to be strictly limited to SBA. You are going to go outside. You're going to take courses from outside SBA, the School of Business. You are going to step into the library. And once you step into the library, then you are learning on your own. And that's a big theme we have. We are hoping that we achieve you to become a learner. So you go to the library and you have the entire resources right there for you. And as a learner, as someone who is left alone, we hope you are intrigued by what's available. We have the librarians, we have the staff, we have the support, we have the technology. Again, everything is for you. It's just one more example of how we are working so that you end up receiving the best education that is available. More resources, but this time inside SBA. We have a fantastic facility called the Interactive Trading Room Facility. This is something like that. Look at the pictures. You will not see this thing in a university. You would see it in an investment bank. It is basically provides life feeds of capital market data, bonds, equities, commodities, currencies, bitcoins, crypto and on and on and on. But in a live manner. So as you're sitting down in one of these terminals, then you are learning information that is current, current as by a current I mean it is happening. This is more perhaps related more directly to the Department of Finance where they integrate curriculum into these activities. Again, do you remember when I told you we make sure that we are making our experience applied. This is the kind of thing we're talking about. But in SBA, this resource is available to outside majors and also more and we see more and more effort where if there is some integration that is taking place between that specific set of knowledge and the ITF. It's again our students enjoy it and we support them to learn how to use it. Outside all of that, perhaps on a much, much lighter tone, our students are so active that they have historically and consistently have organized trips, international trips to different countries. One and they go with a faculty on board one time I was lucky so I joined the trip to the United States. So that was amazing. But if you actually look at this light, I could without pinpointing I can see the Dean in two pictures. I can see Dr. Albert with a one where there was a field trip to an employer in town. So that that was local the other way international. And we used to do this. We used to do this on a system and consistent basis, and then covered came and then you know the rest of what happened to travel limitations and the restrictions. We're very excited that when when life goes back to normal and we have normalcy back that we are able to resume so and we have ideas that are really exciting where perhaps we can combine these with with other with economics. So it's really fantastic and we can't wait to bring it back because when faculty and students go on such a trip. Believe me, it's a relationship for life. A student organization that I would like to stand and give it time is is is is a startup SBA startup SBA is specifically focused on entrepreneurs and and and I mean look around you every institution must have started by entrepreneurs someone who was a risk taker someone who who was not scared from the uncertain someone who didn't necessarily was okay receive and not have not knowing by the end of the month whether or not I will have a steady income by a job someone who's wanted to change the world. Entrepreneurs. Some of our we do understand some of you are entrepreneurs we celebrate we we acknowledge not we are happy. We want to identify you we want to work you with and we want to give you the opportunity to develop after all perhaps that's why you are in the business school because you want to make that change. We have a society that is entirely focused on that and and and that's a very unique opportunity for those entrepreneurs who wish to do those kinds of things that I just described. Remember I said the internship office is any the professional with us so in addition to providing you with the opportunities of finding an internship or replacement which is great on its own. We do more and that and that's what who we are we always do more and that that's the intuition that we that we constantly have that we go beyond. So in this case while you know normally you want to find just internship and placement we do more. So we do in this case the initiative was to start a I lead program and it has three stages where we meet with our Ellen meets with the students and through symposiums workshops presentations. Sometimes it's sometimes it's a professional sometimes it's HR sometimes it's a CEO sometimes it's a faculty and so on but they have three parts. In the first part there is I lead one that is followed by ID two and then by ID three in I lead one. It is focused on you so that you know your strength you know who you are what you're made of what are what are the things inside of you that you would like to explore goal goal setting self assessment. And then comes I lead to how do I prepare for the internship. How do I present myself how do I make a pitch how do I make my resume stand up when there are 1000 other resumes sent to the same employer. How do I do it. That's that would be the career launch so she would be receiving all kinds of training there and then there is the young leaders one which is after you find the job how do you take it once you found the job how do you how do you have the right skills and competencies that will distinguish you as a young leader so that one day you are actually able to achieve all the kinds of things you've done about before walking into into SBA. All right, so our graduates. Okay, our graduates are successful like if I were to just say one thing I would say our graduates are success are success story there is a source. There are a source of pride and again, if there is anything I wish if you join you join you're one of these happy faces, happy faces, happy one through it, happy you graduated and happy you're starting something that is successful. So let me tell you just a little bit about what happens. Our SBA graduates earn earn on average 10,500 a little bit less than that excluding benefits. They get a job in less than four month. And the most beautiful part is the one that is the last point is our employers keep coming back. It's not that they hire a one time graduate and they say thank you but no thank. No, they don't do that. They say give us more. And the reason they say give us more than they come back to us because they know the quality of our graduates. They know that our graduates as the visa are the elite that we are working on today. All right. So those who find jobs, but not everybody's going to find job you see, in SBA we do recognize that we are different that each one has different goals and aspirations someone to pursue graduate school. Like they're smart, they're intellectual, like the, the, the intrigued by knowledge. So, so here's what we have. Look at the success is accounting graduates, some of them went to Harvard, LSE, Manchester, economics, University of Cambridge, Columbia, Oxford, BAE, another economics, University of Oxford, Wisconsin, Madison, finance, LSB or University of California Berkeley, management, LSE, Rochester, I mean, big names, big, big universities, management information system, University of Toronto, Illinois, Chicago, Manchester. Those are our graduates. And again, we hope one day you're one. If it suits you, that's your aspiration. All right. Please. What do our alumni say? Look at the pictures, young, good looking, smiling and success. Honestly, look at the pictures. And don't you wish that one day you're one? That's what that's inside of me. That's inside of all of us. Everybody in this room is hoping that you, if you join us, you're one of them. I mean, Sarah says, SBA gave me the best to start into my career. I just, I developed my leadership skills, dreams and the experience was a life changing. And I can give you 1000 more, honestly, 1000 more. But this is just as an example. Meet the SBA Dean and the associate dean. So let's do that. So this was more on the presentation side. Let's move a little bit to faces who we are, who you are, and we get to. This is all of this. Everything I have said could not have happened without the vision of our Dean, Dr. Nargis Mubakri, who we owe her all our successes. She talked to you shortly before I did. This is the picture. And this is the Dean of the School of Business Administration, Dr. Nargis Mubakri, who's with us today. This is me. I guess you've seen me in life and in a static picture so you can go faster here. And then we have the department heads. Let me stop here for a second. The department has, yeah, your role models, the people who are the true leaders of the school who will take you from where you are today to all the higher levels you want to achieve, depending on your every department as a head of the department has the leader of that department. And I'm going to go alphabetically by the department. So we start from the department of accounting and we have with us Dr. Abad Abdullah and give him the chance to introduce himself for a second. This is Dr. Abad Abdullah. I am the head of accounting department. I would like to welcome you to this session and we're so glad to be with you and answer any questions you have. And we hope that in the fall we'll see you face to face on campus. Absolutely. In economics we have Dr. Samar Khurfi. Samar? Sorry. Hello everyone. My name is Samar Khurfi, the head of economics and I welcome you all to this event and I hope by the end of it you will have answers to many of the questions that you might have and I would be happy to follow up with you after the event in the next weeks as well. Take care. Finance, Dr. Osama Al-Far. After noon and I will come you all to the school of business. I just left my email in the chat box if you have any questions related to the finance, to the finance department, please you can reach me anytime. Just drop an email if you have any questions I would be more than happy to contact. And I wish you a lot. Management, Dr. Patrick McClelland. Hello everyone. First and foremost, welcome to this event. Thank you very much for being with us on this Saturday afternoon. I'm here representing a roughly 210 management students and 14 faculty from the management department. I hope as my colleagues have said you're getting answers to the questions that you have in the event that you have more questions for us. Specifically with respect to management, please feel free to reach out to me and ask whatever it is that you have on your mind. I'll put my email address in the chat box. Nice to meet you. Thank you. That's wonderful. And then we have marketing and information systems. Dr. Sajid Khan. Thank you, Mohsen. Welcome all to this event. It's a great pleasure to see your comments and your names. And I hope that we will have the opportunity to see you face to face in the fall semester. But of course, as my colleagues have just said that if you do have any questions related to marketing or information systems, please feel free to contact me. I will be very, very happy to actually get back to you on any questions. As we are basically the only department in the school where we offer two majors, two programs, marketing and management information systems. So please do get in touch with me and I will write my email address in the chat box. Thank you. Fantastic. Perhaps you have received the emails of the HODs and they are in the chat box. They are easier to reach that way. As you can see, reachable in the chat box, you have the emails. If you have anything on your head that you wish to talk to us or please feel free to write to us. DBT is the dean's business team. It is a student society that serves as liaison between the dean's office and the student organizations. These are just sample of the things that DBT has prepared, export 21 internship, breaking into the corporate world seminars, marketing challenge, and so many more. Just a few pictures of student life in a pre-COVID era. Now things have changed admittedly. But like we said, we hope it's just temporary. It's a phase and we can't wait until we are able to do the kinds of things when you're back on campus. This is current. We are very organized. We take health extremely seriously. So we're having our exams taking place on campus. So if you look, you will see we have directions, we have where to go, we respect social distancing, the masks on. We go all the way to make sure that things are organized. And most importantly, that you're safe. And this is inside of us just to tell you like this would be offices of faculty. But then again, this is now because of all the limitations and restrictions. Nonetheless, just to show you that it is safe and with directions like I just said and health is taking very seriously.