"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. For an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
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NEWS & UPDATES

Gary English, ECMAS Founder and President, is honored to announce that Anita Luise Gasteier has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Regents. She is the sole founder of Anita Luise Styles & more, with company headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and serves as a Business Consultant as well as Consultant for the fashion and interior design industries throughout Europe and the Middle East.

 

ECMAS is pleased to announce the addition of a fourth degree program in Broadcast Journalism. Specific details about the program will be announced soon.

 

The Emirates College of Media Arts and Sciences has started a group on FACEBOOK for you to join. If you are a member why not look for us on FACEBOOK, share your visions, your hopes, your dreams and opinions and become part of something truly historic in the Gulf and Middle East."

 

ECMAS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Eng. Farouk Mukhallalati as Co-Founder and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of The Emirates College of Media Arts & Sciences UK Limited. >>

 

From 11th through 14th April, ECMAS was an exhibitor within the Dubai Knowledge Village/Dubai International Academic City pavillion at the GETEX Higher Education Exhibition held at the Dubai World Trade Center. On behalf of our ECMAS partners, colleagues and friends, we would like to take this opportunity to express our most sincere appreciation to our future students and their families for the overwhelming and most enthusiastic response ECMAS received.

 

President Gary A. English has announced that ECMAS will be a full participant at the 19th Gulf Education and Training Exhibition (GETEX) at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre from 11th to 14th April. GETEX Dubai is the most comprehensive forum for the education and training sectors in the Middle East and beyond. ECMAS will be located in Booth #902 in the Dubai Knowledge Village Pavillion. Please make certain to click on the link below to download your personal VIP Invitation. We look forward to seeing you at GETEX Dubai! (www.mygetex.com)

 

Effective immediately, Gary A. English has assumed the role of CEO of ECMAS BVI, parent company of The Emirates College of Media Arts and Sciences. The ECMAS BVI Board of Directors will oversee the management of all ECMAS global operations. Additional Executive and Non-Executive Members of the ECMAS BVI Board of Directors will be announced soon.

 

Founder and President Gary A. English, a member of the Forbes CEO Network, has graciously accepted an invitation to become an Honorary Member of The Thinker's Club (www.thinkers-club.com). The Thinker's Club is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to bringing together “innovative thinkers” from politics, industry, journalism, science and other areas to work on a generational-spreading improvement of certain processes in our global societies.

The Thinker's Club has applied for "Consultative Status“ with ECOSOC of the United Nations. Nominated for patronage (from each of the 3 continents North America, Europe, and Asia, and from the areas of the economy, international politics, and medicine) are three outstanding personalities: Prof. Lester Thurow (Dean, MIT), former French President Valéry Giscard d`Estaing (European Convention) and Prof. Kiyoshi Kurokawa (International Society of Internal Medicine, special advisor to the Japanese Prime Minister).

 
ECMAS Founder and President Gary A. English and Vice President Dr. James P. McNab will attend the European Association of International Education annual conference (www.eaie.org) from 13 - 17 September in Basel, Switzerland, where they will formally announce the October opening of ECMAS administrative offices in Dubai. More than 5,000 international educators are expected to attend the conference.
 
ECMAS is pleased to announce that Albert Klamt, Berlin - senior advisor for Dubai investments, and geopolitical strategic perspectives in the Middle East has enthusiastically agreed to join the Board of Regents.
 
ECMAS has appointed Goetterfunke Communication KG in Munich, Germany as its exclusive representative for all matters pertaining to press and promotion within the European Union countries.
 
ECMAS is honored to announce that Dr. James P. McNab, a world renowned figure in higher education, has accepted the post of Vice President of Academic Affairs/Provost. For the past eight years (1997-2005), he served as Assistant Provost for International Programs and head of the International Office at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) in addition to his full schedule of lectures.
 

Professor Gary A. English, Founder and President of ECMAS, recently stated “We are extremely honored that the ECMAS Board of Regents currently includes members

• Caroline Faraj, Dubai
- Head of CNN Arabic;
• Dr. Saad Al Ajmi, Kuwait
- former Minister of Information for Kuwait and currently CEO of Tashkeel Media Group;
• Paul Katz, New York City/London
- former Senior Vice President Worldwide, Sony BMG Music and now an independent media producer;
• Jennie Lew Tugend, Los Angeles/Tokyo
- renowned Hollywood film producer;
• Merlin Koene, Berlin
- former Head of Reuters Business Television Germany, currently a consultant with CNC Communications;
• Mark Bogen, Salzburg
- CEO, Bogen Wealth Management;
• Hannes M. Schalle, Salzburg/Vienna - CEO, Moonlake Entertainment GmbH, Salzburg - COO, Apeiron Entertainment AG, Frankfurt
• Clemens Hackl, London - CEO/Founder of Exponential Design London and Creative Director at the British European Design Group

     
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