Ready to transform your leadership journey? The Executive MBA from Africa Business School is designed for experienced professionals like you who are ready to drive change across Africa and the world. In partnership with Columbia Business School, this hybrid, flexible program blends academic excellence with real-world application, empowering you to lead with confidence in today’s complex business landscape.
You’ll revisit core management principles, explore emerging technologies, and develop the strategic and operational skills needed to lead digital transformation. Learn to navigate complexity and ambiguity, drive innovation, and integrate environmental and social priorities into responsible decision-making.
Grounded in Africa’s unique business realities and connected to global frameworks, this program helps you create competitive, context-aware solutions. Join immersive modules in selected African countries and New York to deepen your regional insight and global perspective. Through interactive classrooms, action-based learning, and close engagement with world-class faculty and peers, you’ll strengthen your leadership and expand your global network—all while maintaining your executive responsibilities.
24 months
Rabat, Benguerir, New York, African countries
English
90 ECTS
December 10th, 2025
By joining the EMBA at Africa Business School, you will transform your leadership capabilities:
Revisit core management concepts to analyze their application in complex, real-world business contexts
Cultivate the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, and to drive agility and innovation in fast-changing environments
Develop the strategic and operational capabilities needed to lead and manage the digital transformation of organizations
Integrate environmental and social priorities into responsible and high-impact business decision-making
Combine insights from the African context with global frameworks to create competitive, context-relevant business solutions
Our EMBA is designed to empower experienced professionals to lead with impact in complex and evolving environments. The program delivers value across five core dimensions:
Benefit from a dual immersion in New York City and Africa, supported by diverse faculty from Columbia Business School and Africa Business School
Grow as a purposeful and adaptive leader through individual coaching, dedicated leadership modules, and group-based learning
Engage deeply with Africa’s business landscape through modules on geoeconomics, Intercultural Management and African footprint
Learn from joint faculty of renowned professors from Africa Business School and Columbia Business School
The modular format, delivered over 24 months, blends in-person residencies and hybrid sessions to fit senior professionals’ realities
This program is more than a degree—it’s a platform for transformation, offering you the tools, insights, and network to create lasting value for your organization, your region, and the world.
As part of your EMBA journey, you’ll take part in two transformative immersion trips designed to connect academic insight with real-world complexity.
Held each year in a different country. Explore first-hand the dynamics of African business environments through dedicated courses, executive meetings, site visits, and socio-economic briefings.
One working week academic residency at Columbia Business School in New York. Engage with leading faculty, attend high-level sessions, and meet with business leaders and policymakers.
Both trips are designed to deepen your understanding of diverse ecosystems, sharpen your cross-cultural agility, and expose you to a wide range of business challenges and leadership models.
Your EMBA experience culminates in an Africa Consulting project, a capstone project that brings together your learning and leadership development into a concrete, high-impact engagement.
In small teams, you’ll collaborate with senior professionals from leading global consulting firms to address a real-world business challenge. The project may involve a strategic review, a transformation roadmap, or a problem-solving intervention for a company, sector, or ecosystem.
Throughout the journey, you’ll be guided by faculty and expert practitioners, gaining structured feedback and mentoring while delivering actionable recommendations. This experience not only consolidates your knowledge—it strengthens your consulting mindset, client engagement skills, and capacity to generate societal value.
Strategic partnership with Columbia Business School, offering access to a world-class academic ecosystem in New York
Enhanced with sustainability, artificial intelligence, geoeconomics, and fintech themes
Combining individual coaching, experiential modules, and immersive learning
Modular format allowing you to balance professional commitments and academic engagement
Regional immersions and context-specific modules to address local challenges and opportunities
Final consulting project (Capstone) designed to deliver real-world impact and mobilize acquired competencies
Access to a diverse peer network, fostering long-term collaboration and global professional exposure
CV + Cover Letter
Rolling Admissions
December 10th, 2025
