First of all, a Happy New Year to you all and welcome to the first 2025 issue of Bayes Alumni News.
The New Year has begun as the previous twelve months ended – with further good news from our alumni community, continued recognition of the excellence of our programmes and research output, and new opportunities to connect with our alumni community.
We are delighted to have awarded our inaugural Bayes Alumni Awards to seven highly deserving winners. It was a pleasure to be able to present a number of them in person at the festive edition of Bayes Alumni Connect in December. You can read more about their achievements here. Earlier this month, the 2025 New Year’s Honours list was published, in which seven Bayes and City St George’s alumni feature. We are very proud of the impact our alumni are having, within the community, on business, society and the world at large.
At programme level, the 2025 Poets & Quants ranking has given a resounding endorsement of our Full-time MBA, placing it 2nd in the UK, 6th in Europe and 18th in the world for entrepreneurship. As you will see from the research stories in this issue of Bayes Alumni News, entrepreneurship is very close to our heart and is reflected in our School’s mission, so to receive such an acknowledgement is a source of great satisfaction.
The DNA of our School is necessarily multi-faceted, so I am especially proud to observe that not only are we nurturing business creation within our School and alumni community, but also fostering a genuinely philanthropic spirit. You can read more about the lengths alumni go to give back to the School and University via their generous financial contributions to helping current students in the latest Impact Report.
Finally, the breadth and outreach of the many events to have taken place around the world in recent months and those to come in 2025 bear witness to an alumni community that is global in so much more than just numbers. It was truly gratifying to meet with alumni at recent receptions in Greece, Malaysia and Singapore and this will be followed this Spring by Receptions in the US, India and the UAE. These flagship events, coupled with the alumni-run gatherings organised around the world by our dedicated alumni ambassadors, are the heartbeat of our ever-connected alumni network. 2025 will be no exception to this!
Best wishes,
Professor André Spicer
Executive Dean, Bayes Business School