Alumni Town Hall on Friday 25th September 2020

Message from  Professor Paolo Volpin, Dean: We recently held an Alumni Town Hall meeting to explain more about why the Business School has changed its name, the process for finding a new name and how alumni can get involved. We were privileged to hear from some members of our alumni community about their personal views…Continue Reading Alumni Town Hall on Friday 25th September 2020

Message from Professor Paolo Volpin, Dean of the Business School (formerly Cass)

Speech transcript as delivered to Alumni Town Hall on Friday 25th September 2020, 12.30 – 1.30 pm Welcome to you all. Thank you for joining. Almost 500 alumni are with us today, and I am grateful that you are giving us so much of your time. My name is Professor Paolo Volpin and I am…Continue Reading Message from Professor Paolo Volpin, Dean of the Business School (formerly Cass)

Missing City and your alumni services?

Campus: With the new academic year just around the corner, colleagues across City are working hard to ensure new and returning students get off to the best possible start. Safety is of course paramount. This also means that, for the time being, physical access to campus has to be tightly managed and is currently restricted to…Continue Reading Missing City and your alumni services?

A Road to Extinction

Researched and written by the first Director of the Royal African Society, Dr Jonathan Lawley (Administrative Sciences MBA, 1994 and Chemistry, 1996) chronicles the fascinating 100,000-year history of the Andamanese aboriginals and showcases how modern society threatens to wipe out our earliest human ancestors. We caught up with Jonathan who told us all about his…Continue Reading A Road to Extinction

Virtual Science

Second place prize winner Zaibaa Patel (Biomedical Engineering (MEng + PhD), 2019), tells us all about her experience of the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, including the first-ever 48-hour Online Sciathon.  Can you tell me about your time at City? I was at City for 8 years, completing my MEng and PhD. I absolutely loved…Continue Reading Virtual Science

Income insurance for millennials

  Contents Affordable, Digital and Instant Income Insurance After finding the process of buying or claiming on insurance incredibly frustrating, Reza Hekmat (Actuarial Science, 2014) felt it was time to bring the system into the digital-age, so it no longer took weeks to complete! With Spring now fully set up, the team have been able…Continue Reading Income insurance for millennials