Jikyeong Kang

57, was elected to the Board on April 25, 2017. She is the Chairperson of the Related Party Transactions and Transformation Committees. She is also a member of the Risk Oversight Committee.

Dr. Kang is the President and Dean of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and holds the MVP Chair in Marketing. Prior to assuming her post at AIM, Dr. Kang was Director of the DBA Program at Manchester Business School (MBS) from 2010 to 2014. At MBS, she also served as Director of the Postgraduate Centre in charge of their MBA Programs from 2001 to 2007, where she was instrumental in propelling the full-time MBA Program’s Financial Times ranking from 47th in the world in 2002 to 22nd in 2007, the highest ranking it has ever achieved. Whilst she was in charge of the MBA Programs, MBS became one of the first schools in the world to earn triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA.

Dr. Kang currently serves on the International Board of AACSB, the world’s largest business education alliance, and on the Board of EFMD, an international 900-member organization of business schools and corporations. She is also an Independent Director of Kesoram Industries, which is part of the B K Birla Group of Companies in India.

Dr. Kang earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota, her Master’s degree from Colorado State University, and her Bachelor’s degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.