Spring 2024 Convocation Program - Thunderbird School of Global Management

Spring 2024

May 7, 2024 | 4 p.m.

Phoenix Convention Center - South Ballroom

Phoenix, Arizona

THUNDERBIRD SCHOOL OF GLOBAL MANAGEMENT AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Established 1946

Sanjeev Khagram, PhD

Director General, Dean and Foundation Professor of Global Leadership and Global Futures

Charla Griffy-Brown, PhD

Vice Dean and Professor of Global Digital Transformation

Lawrence Abeln, PhD

Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Executive Education and Clinical Professor of Global Management

Lena Booth, PhD

Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Academic Enterprise and Professor of Finance

Mary Teagarden, PhD

Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Knowledge Enterprise and Professor of Global Strategy

Roy Nelson, PhD

Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor

Thomas Hunsaker, PhD

Associate Dean of Global Challenge Lab

Convocation Program

Processional

Parade of International Flags .......

National Anthem of the United States of America ....

Dean’s Welcome...................................Sanjeev Khagram, PhD .............................................................

Director General, Dean and Foundation Professor of Global Leadership and Global Futures ......................................................... Thunderbird School of Global Management

Introductions of Platform Party

Oath of Honor ......................................

Sanjeev Khagram, PhD

Peyton Ament, Nora Khaled, Shivansh Sharma Thunderbird Student Government Representatives

Military Service Recognition

William Youngdahl Associate Professor and William D. Hacker Faculty Fellow

Student/Faculty Awards ...................Charla Griffy-Brown, PhD Vice Dean and Professor of Global Digital Transformation

Keynote Address .................................Marshall Parke, ’77

............................................................... Former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner, ............................................................. Lexington Partners ............................................................... Founder, Thunderbird SHARE Fellowship ............................................................... Member, TGAN Advisory Council

Dean’s Address ....................................Sanjeev Khagram, PhD

Presentation of Candidates

Sanjeev Khagram, PhD

Roy Nelson, PhD

Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor

..............................................................Lena Booth, PhD

Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Academic Enterprise and Professor of Finance

Closing Remarks

One of Thunderbird’s most time-honored traditions is the Parade of International Flags, started by students in 1977, and carried by graduates.

Name Country/Region Program

Modukpe Violette Ledy Akpona Benin BGM

Herretter Bongkwada Yerima Cameroon MGM

Xiaoyang Yuan China MGM

Manuela Montoya Colombia MGM

Rusamarirwa Bigege Democratic Republic of the Congo MGM

Diego Efrain Mejia Carrillo Ecuador MGM

Mohab Dawoud Egypt MGM

Noa Bleu Berger France MGM

Francis Yaw Ansah Ghana MGM

Jean Kensle Figaro Haiti MGM

Allari Mallu India MGM

Indri Driawati Indonesia MGM

Acacia Capri Wastchak Italy BSIT

William Ngumbu Massaquoi Liberia MGM

Andrew John Domanskis Lithuania BGM

Gabriel Flores Lopez-Negrete Mexico MGM

Wallat Dateer Dennis Nigeria MGM

Maria Paz Goni Tello Peru MGM

Sheilla Ignacio De Vega Philippines MLM

Pavel Zhurov Russia BGM

Diane Mugisha Rwanda MGM

McManus Augustin Saint Lucia MGM

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Alleeafeh Saudi Arabia MGM

Alie Musa Tarawally Sierra Leone MGM

Alexandria Halle Murphy Singapore MGM

María Monserrat Apud de la Fuente Spain MGM

Yu Chieh Wang Taiwan MGM

Mancharie La Mere Thailand MGM

Gulnaza Saburhojayeva Turkmenistan MGM

Angella Nantambi Uganda MGM

Kateryna Karavan Ukraine MLM

Ryan M. Mass United States MALM

Ngonidzashe Marvin Kanjere Zimbabwe MGM

THUNDERBIRD

PROFESSIONAL

Oath of Honor

As a Thunderbird and a global citizen, I promise:

• I will strive to act with honesty and integrity;

• I will respect the rights and dignity of all people;

• I will strive to create an equitable and sustainable prosperity worldwide;

• I will oppose all forms of corruption and exploitation; and

• I will take responsibility for my actions.

As I hold true to these principles, it is my hope that I may enjoy an honorable reputation and peace of conscience.

This pledge I make freely and upon my honor.

National Anthem of the United States of America

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave.

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Marshall Parke, ’77

Former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner, Lexington Partners Founder, Thunderbird SHARE Fellowship Member, Thunderbird Global Alumni Network (TGAN) Advisory Council

Parke is currently the senior partner of Western Venture Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with offices in London and New York. He was previously the vice chairman and a managing partner at Lexington Partners, based in London, and responsible for the firm’s activities outside of the United States. Lexington is the largest buyer of secondary interests of private equity assets globally with international offices in London, Hong Kong, and Santiago.

Prior to joining Lexington, Parke founded and built Manistee Ltd, a Bangkok based merchant bank focused on advising and building businesses in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia. At Manistee, Parke started six businesses focused on investment banking, semiconductor packaging and assembly, advertising and environmental solutions.

Early in his career, Parke was a banker at HSBC and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Parke double majored in International Affairs and Arabic at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where he also worked as an aide in the U.S. Congress during the Watergate era. He earned a master of international management degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1977 and he has also participated in Harvard’s Owner/President Management Program.

Parke is the founder of Thunderbird’s SHARE Fellowship program which provides scholarships and mentoring to outstanding students from low- and middle-income countries around the world. He is also a member of the Thunderbird Global Alumni Network (TGAN) Advisory Council.

Thunderbird Student Government

As representatives of the student body, Thunderbird Student Government (TSG) seeks to promote the welfare of each individual by enhancing the student experience, along with ensuring the satisfaction of the institution as a whole. As citizens of the world, TSG strives to promote values of diversity and inclusion to create a sustainable environment that allows the student members to excel as professionals during and after their studies.

Thunderbird TSG Executive Team: Spring 2024–Fall 2024

• President: Shivansh Sharma

• Vice President of Operations: Nora Khaled

• Vice President of Finance: Peyton Ament

Campus Ambassadors

Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Campus Ambassadors (CAs) conduct historic and technological tours of our campus, host on-campus speakers, networking events, and spearhead other initiatives aimed at recruiting the next generation of Thunderbirds. Their commitment to academic excellence, coupled with their unmatched leadership capacity, distinguishes them as the top of their class and affirms their reputation amongst faculty and peers. They endeavor to serve prospective and current students, local and global businesses, community organizations, and the greater Thunderbird alumni network.

Leadership Team: 2023-2024

President: Gulnaza Saburhojayeva

Vice President: Raul Gilberto Ramos Barreda

Director of Marketing: Arunima Chetan Gupta

Director of Student Engagement: Matthew Derminio

Outstanding Graduating Campus Ambassadors

• Krishnakanth Bajaj

• Sakshi Bhangale

• Vyom Chaudhari

• Jean Kensle Figaro

• Gabriel Flores Lopez-Negrete

• Arunima Chetan Gupta

• Conor Ketchner

• Diego Efrain Mejia Carrillo

• Manuela Montoya

• Alexandria Halle Murphy

• Raul Gilberto Ramos Barreda

• Gulnaza Saburhojayeva

• Smruthi Sridharan

Accolades

Dean’s Circle Awards

The Dean’s Circle Award is presented to graduating students who have shown exceptional leadership, have improved the quality of the experience for their fellow students and have made a lasting contribution to the school. Students in all programs are eligible to receive this recognition.

• Reem Abuhulaibah

• Abdulaziz Alakeel

• Jehad AlDamigh

• Isabel Aluzzi

• Humberto Camacho

• Cing Cin

• Grecia Cubillas

• Wallat Dateer Dennis

• Indri Driawati

• Taras Dumych

• Jean Kensle Figaro

• Arunima Gupta

• Ruslan Hutnikov

• Alex Kah-Leng Toh

• Kyle Kay

• Joseph Kemp

• Samuel Loose

• Roman Makarchuk

• Ngoni Marvin Kanjere

• Diane Mugisha

• Haley Neary

Founders Awards

• Erica Nelson

• Anna Omelchuk

• Aniket Pataskar

• Kaylee Pham

• Rafiq Pharaon

• Samuel Reeves

• Isabel Rennie

• Michael Rockwell

• Brian Scott

• Yuliya Shtaltovna

• Preston Silvas

• Nicole Spreitzer

• Smruthi Sridharan

• Ananise Toth

• Prateek Vibhor

• Katherine Walsh

• Acacia Capri Wastchak

• Fanjun Wu

• Trebor Zaldivar Cordero

• Pavel Zhurov

The Founders Award is presented to two students in each of the degree programs offered by the school who through his or her high achievement best represents the values, standards and international dexterity envisioned by the founders of Thunderbird in 1946.

• Nicole Spreitzer, BGM

• Preston Silvas, BSIT

• Fanjun Wu, BGM

• Samuel Loose, BGM

• Grecia Cubillas, MGM

• Jean Kensle Figaro, MGM

• Yuliya Shtaltovna, MLM

• Joseph Kemp, MLM

Barton Kyle Yount Awards

Faculty presents this award to two members of each full-time undergraduate and graduate classes who most adheres to the principles of scholarship, accomplishment and character, based on the ideals of Lieutenant General Barton Kyle Yount (USA, Ret.), the first president and founder of the school.

• Ngonidzashe Marvin Kanjere (Graduate)

• Haley Neary (Graduate)

Moeur Awards

• Humberto Camacho (Undergraduate)

• Katherine Walsh (Undergraduate)

This award was named for Dr. B. B. Moeur, who was a physician and businessman in Tempe in the early 1900s and served as Governor of Arizona in the 1930s. Since 1901, the ASU Alumni Association has presented the Moeur Award to those undergraduates with the highest academic standing who have completed all their coursework toward their degree at Arizona State University within eight consecutive fall and spring semesters. This award is sponsored by the Arizona State University Alumni Association.

• Isabel Aluzzi, BGM

• Humberto Camacho, BSIT

• Manuel Camacho, BGM

• Addison Sutton, BGM

Outstanding University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards

The Outstanding University Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards are given to graduates who are recognized for excelling in their academic pursuits and contributing to both the greater Arizona State University and Thunderbird School of Global Management community.

• Humberto Camacho, BSIT

• Arunima Chetan Gupta, MGM

Honors

Some of the graduation candidates’ names listed in the program are followed by a β symbol. This symbol denotes that these students are members of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society (World Business).

Academic Regalia

During the Middle Ages, students and teachers wore gowns at all times. Today, it is customary for faculty and graduates to wear academic vestments at academic convocations. Thunderbird continues to take part in this tradition today. Thunderbird graduate students wear a hood decorated in the blue and gold colors of the school, bordered in velvet. The dark color represents business academic disciplines. The blue and gold honor cords worn by graduating students represent the top 20% of students according to academic standards.

Veterans wear a stole that varies in color and design based on their branch of service.

Doctoral hoods, worn by faculty, are larger and longer. Doctoral gowns generally bear three velvet bars on the sleeves, while masters’ gowns are plain, but may have trailing arms with open sleeves.

The rainbow of colors in the hoods of the faculty conveys the range of academic disciplines and universities represented.

Thunderbird School of Global Management permits students to participate in the graduation ceremony of their choice prior to fulfilling graduation requirements.

Participation in the graduation ceremony does not indicate that the degree is officially conferred nor that the candidate is graduating in the term in which the individual participates in the ceremony.

Candidates for Bachelor of Global Management

Modukpe Violette Ledy Akpona

Isabel Nadine Aluzzi

Wenfan Bai

Soniaeysela Marie Barragan

Giovanni Bernal

Jacob Aaron Bridges

Shantelee Rosanne Brown

Sarah Buckles

Kelsea Cain

Manuel Camacho

Anita Marie Carbajal

Zi Yi Cheng

Tsz Chung Chu

Rachel Clem

Sarah-Marie Modesto Daniels

Andrew John Domanskis

Belle Madison Dela Cruz Estrella

Tiara Loretta Garrett

Corey Carbonetti Gaskell

Aldo Enrique Gonzalez

Caitlin Patricia Hack

Malajisa A. Harris

Ingrid Tatiana Hernandez Fajardo

Derek Michael Higgins

Paul Anders Krieg

Tristen James Lawrence

Samuel Thomas Loose

Bryson Robert C. Lowe

Alexander Jason Mahn

Anissa Tanee Martinez

Carmen Teresa Martinez

Angela Jean Moreno

Kai Erna Frederika Josephine Mortensen

Serena Ng

Kaylee Pham

Isabel Christina Rennie

Dennis Marlon Rios Gramajo

Bernie Rivera

Xiomara Romero

Trace Thomas Scarbrough

Sarah Kathleen Schoening

Alexander William Spedding

Nicole Karin Spreitzer

Addison Geve Sutton

Ananise Toth

Sandra Elizabeth Trejos

Celina Villalba Martinez

Katherine Anna Breslin Walsh

Jake Metro Warner

Fanjie Wu

Fanjun Wu

Sota Yanagida

Simon Yang

Dominique Marie Zapata

Pavel Zhurov

Candidates for Bachelor of Science in International Trade

Mithil Reddy Adamala

Knight David Bolton

Humberto Camacho

Daniel Carrillo Gonzalez

Anna Cigic

Chuyi Huang

Jie Jiang

Asher Elijah Jones

Peilin Li

Chenghe Luo

Noemi Abigail Marquez

Chanyoung Park

Bahaa Sadat

Preston James Estrella Silvas

Yutian Song

Alex Kah-Leng Toh

Acacia Capri Wastchak

Di Yun

Candidates for Master of Global Management

Redha Ahmad A. Abu Shaheen β

Reem Fadhel K. Abuhulaibah

Ayden Acuña

Sahithya Addagoda

Adya Advani

Tanisha Agrawal

Mohammed Ibrahim A. Al Anseef

Shabib Muaddi O. Alajmi

Abdulaziz Alakeel

Abdulla Nael Alawadhi

Shouq Lafi M. Albalawi

Wael Mohammed A. Alfawzan

Mustafa Yehya H. Alhashim

Sauod Jamal Alhilal Sr.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah Alleeafeh

Yahya Alshehri

Francis Yaw Ansah

María Monserrat Apud de la Fuente

McManus Augustin

Krishnakanth Bajaj

Noah Bates

Cassandra Beltran

Noa Bleu Berger

Sakshi Chandrakant Bhangale

Rusamarirwa Bigege

Mariana C. Brown

Geoffrey G. Buranday

Gon Woo Cha

Moehamad Yunus Chalidana

Yung Chieh Chang

Vyom Zaverbhai Chaudhari

Arun Chitla

Vidya Sagar Chitturi

Anjali Chopra

Grecia Reneé Cubillas

Mohab Dawoud

Wallat Dateer Dennis

Aashay Rajesh Desai

George Dicke

Indri Driawati β

Isaac Kristjon Durham

Cheng-Yu Fang

Jean Kensle Figaro β

Alessandra Dominique Flores

Gabriel Flores Lopez-Negrete

Leland Kennedy Thomas Flynn

Tanmay Gaikwad

Palak Gambhir

Nisarg Hirenkumar Gandhi β

Feiyang Ge

Maria Paz Goni Tello

Kriti Goyal

Sandip Guha

Coonet Simbarashe Simbarashe Gumbi

Arunima Chetan Gupta β

Jilong Han

Lauren Taylor Hess

Cesar Ivan Huitron

Mansiba Vanrajsinh Jadeja

Niyati Jain

Dakshita Jajoo

Likhita Jakkam

Wenyu Jiang

Harrison Wanyoko Kamau

Ngonidzashe Marvin Kanjere

Vignesh Surej Karuvapettipura Surej

Kyle Richard Kay β

Conor John Ketchner

Spencer Beck Knowlton β

Viral Vasant Kundhadia

Vladislav Kuznetsov β

Mancharie La Mere

Candidates for Master of Global Management, con’t

Aaron Jean-Luc Lange

Annika Leal

Jonathan Junior Li

Yixuan Li

Yen Lin Liao

Lance Israel Magtoto Lim β

Hung Wei Lin

You-An Lin

Songyue Liu

Ludwig Lopez

Laura Cristina Loriquer Munoz

Elias Tawedzerwa Madzivire

Allari Mallu

Charles Manongwa

Sara Ivana Martin Mangas

William Ngumbu Massaquoi

Umeshwar Singh Mehta

Diego Efrain Mejia Carrillo

Basiru Mohammed

Manuela Montoya

Diane Mugisha

Mohammad Asim Munir

Alexandria Halle Murphy

William Mushonga

Angella Nantambi

Omar Nasrati

Haley Eliane Neary β

Prateek Vibhor

Hector Jose Orrico Luque β

Gabrielle Parke β

Akshitha Pasham

Samiksha Pasham

Aniket Pravin Pataskar

Rachana Pendse

Matthew Thomas Jerome Pepper

Achirin Peter

Sai Venkata Akash Purushotham

Sneha Purushothama

Abdalrahman Yousef I. Qasem Sr.

Raul Gilberto Ramos Barreda β

Stylé Noel Ranger

Cristina Ratu

Joshua Salomon Rieber

Annie Louisiana Roan

Michael Rockwell β

Natasha Neelam Runwal

Gulnaza Saburhojayeva β

Vikram Sahgal

Roxana Sanchez Servin De La Mora

Brian Michael Scott

Daniel Bastos Scott

Mikayla Karinne Sedgwick

Harshita Dathysha Shetty

Asmita Ramesh Shinkar

Sai Sidhartha Raj Sindam

Abhay Raj Singh

Triston B. B. J. Smith β

Smruthi Sridharan

Quinn Marie Ricchiuti Stalcup

Jared Zachary Sybrowsky

Naushil Nareshkumar Tabhani

Jun Tang

Khoa Tuan Anh Tang

Alie Musa Tarawally

Meet Purvinkumar Thakkar

Benjamin Bruce Thomas

Thalia Alejandra Torres

Yu-Fei Tseng

Advika Shirish Ugale β

Danielle Chieko Hayami Ujimori β

Ananya Upadhyay

Seth Tanner Verville

Candidates for Master of Global Management, con’t

Aagam Ketan Vora β

Hao Wang

Yu Chieh Wang

Kendall Elisabeth Watson Anderson

Clare Eileen Welch

Sarah Ashley Wells

Michael Francis Whelan

Nathan Larkin Wilson

Marine Caroline Wolff

Marques T. Wong β

Desmond Fonyuy Wysenyuy

Reza Yandripano

Xiyao Yang

Herretter Bongkwada Yerima

Xiaoyang Yuan

Saam Jon Zadeh

Trebor Zaldivar Cordero

Shatil Kishor Zecharia

Kexin Zhu

Candidates for Master of Applied Leadership & Management

Megan J. Auld

Thomas Mark Blair

David Jose Bracamonte

Tiana S. Burdick

Kaylynne Emmalee Burleson

Hao Chen

Linlin Chen

Cing Deih Cin

Jerry Maynard Clayton II

Matthew J. Coombs

Sheilla Ignacio De Vega

Greg Dela Rosa

Xiuling Deng

Betty Baisiwa Dowuona-Hammond

Ping Du

Jessica DuBose

Cole David Eastman

Geoffrey Thomas Fass

Zhangyuan Gao

Tierra Dieon Gardner-Davis

Trevor Eric Godfrey

Qijun Guan

Junwei Guo

Dong Myong Jeon

Tingting Jiang

Tiranke Kaba

Vinod Kesavan

Sidi Lan

Ang Li

Lingzi Li

Xin Li

Yaling Li

Lawrence Martinez

Ryan M. Mass

Dalya Hayder Mohammed

Eric Asante Osei

Uchenna Vitalis Osuoha

Devin Marquis Patterson

Samuel Ted Tyre Reeves

Zev Samuel Schachter

Rukia Sheikh Hassan

Kendrick Alexander Stevenson

Qian Sun

Daniel Martin Taylor

Tao Wang

Weishan Wang

Xugang Wang

Yijun Wang

Chenghong Ye

Bing Yin

Erika Mary Yoshimura

James W. Zaiger

Li Zeng

Guangyi Zhang

Hui Zhang

Lijun Zhang

Youquan Zhang

Peng Zhang

Haiyang Zhao

Fangyi Zou

Candidates for Master of Leadership and Management

Meri Akopyan

Ghadah Farhan Alanazi

Abdullah Albeaijan

Jehad Mohammed AlDamigh

Nawaf Aldkhil

Amjad Aleidan

Yara Alfayez

Nayef Alharbi

Sedeen Naif Alharbi

Mohammed Aljouei

Sumayyah Alshalan

Norah Alsheikh

Nawaf Shaker Alsultan

Mykhailo Bairaka

Davina Renee Basham

Cameron Robert Becker

Jeremy W. Bliler

Elina Bodzhek

Kostiantyn Boiko

Tymofii Diukariev

Taras Dumych

Andrii Fedotov

Tyler Gratton

Ruslan Hutnikov

Natalia Iskovych

Kateryna Karavan β

Joseph Francisco Kemp

Oleh Koretskyy

Yurii Kostiv β

Igor Krechkevych

Dmytro Krylov β

Maksym Kryvosheiev

Nadiia Kuzmychova

Valeriy Lemesh

Roman Makarchuk

Hortense Mawa Mayaka

Viktoriia Mianovska β

Sofiia Mysak

Erica Lynn Nelson

Anna Omelchuk

Joshua Knotts O’Neill

Rafiq Pharaon

Mykhailo Vitaliyovych Ponomarenko

Anton Shantyr

Yuliya Shtaltovna

Anton Soloviov

Andriy Strutynskyy

Oksana Tkachuk

Daria Tkalenko

Ivan Vynnychenko

Raneem Fawaz Wahbi

John Francis Walsh III

Dawei Wang

Elizabeth Shin-li Wu

Christina Lynn Young

Andriy Zayika

Sergii Zheka

Taras Ziniak

Congratulations Class of 2024

About Thunderbird School of Global Management

Thunderbird School of Global Management is the world’s premier institution for global leadership, management, and business education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but we are much more than a school. Thunderbird is also a global network of leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs across the private and public sectors who advance the School’s vision of inclusive and sustainable prosperity worldwide.

Thunderbird has trained global leaders and managers for over 75 years. Originally known as the American Institute for Foreign Trade, Thunderbird was chartered on April 8, 1946, at a World War II airbase in Glendale, Arizona, called Thunderbird Field, where pilots from around the world came for training during wartime. General Barton Kyle Yount (USA, Ret.) obtained the airfield with the express purpose of developing a school for professionals focused exclusively on international trade and global affairs. The guiding principle established at Thunderbird’s founding is best summarized in a phrase coined by original faculty member Dr. William Lytle Schurz, “Borders frequented by trade seldom need soldiers.”

Thunderbird became the world’s first-ever higher education institution to focus exclusively on international leadership by concentrating its curriculum on global management and business skills, international political economy and regional business environments, and languages and cross-cultural communications. The School has often been called a “miniUnited Nations” because of its diverse and inclusive global student body. Thunderbird is now known worldwide for its vast and engaged alumni network of over 45,000 graduates in nearly 150 nations around the globe. Thunderbird has more than 170 alumni chapters that meet regularly in 70 countries.

In 2015, Thunderbird became a unit of the Arizona State University public enterprise, combining Thunderbird’s multi-decade heritage of developing global leaders with ASU’s expansive resources. Ushering in the Thunderbird 4.0 era, the School relocated to ASU’s vibrant Downtown Phoenix campus in 2018. The move brought the world’s No. 1 ranked Master’s in Management (WSJ/THE) under the umbrella of the nation’s No. 1 ranked school for innovation (U.S. News & World Report), Arizona State University.

In fall 2021, the state-of-the-art F. Francis & Dionne Najafi Thunderbird Global Headquarters building opened its doors, spanning 110,000 square feet over five floors on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus. Thunderbird students hone their leadership skills within the classrooms of the technologically advanced Thunderbird Global Headquarters, utilizing cutting-edge technology and multidimensional learning spaces, including a virtual reality language lab, tabletop computers, green-screen studio, full extended reality production and development studio, and a volumetric capture lab that creates full, three-dimensional renderings for faculty and student initiatives. This technology facilitates connections key to immersing students in their disciplines while allowing them to collaborate on a global scale.

About

In the first-ever rankings of their kind, Thunderbird was named No. 1 in the world in international trade by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the premier global higher education analyst organization. Ranking ahead of 199 other institutions and scoring 100 out of 100 points, this top ranking in 2023 placed Thunderbird ahead of Harvard, MIT and Stanford, domestically, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, internationally. In partnership with the Hinrich Foundation, QS selected Thunderbird’s Master of Global Management degree program as the “world’s best international trade programme,” in its QS International Trade Rankings 2023.

Thunderbird was also recognized by the Financial Times Executive Education rankings for 2023 for its exceptional delivery of custom and open enrollment programs. The prestigious global ranking places Thunderbird Executive Education custom programs at No. 20 worldwide — ahead of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge — and No. 4 in the United States, among the top 75 programs globally. The 2023 rankings also placed Thunderbird at No. 5 in the world for best “overseas custom programs” and No. 11 for “most international participants” in open enrollment programs.

In fall 2023, Arizona State University was ranked No. 20 in the United States for shaping future leaders in TIME and Statista’s inaugural Best Colleges for Future Leaders list, placing ASU ahead of University of Southern California, the University of California-Los Angeles, and Johns Hopkins University.

Thunderbird’s global footprint has also grown over the years as well, with operations now in Geneva, Dubai, Tokyo, Seoul, Nairobi, Jakarta and nearly 15 others, Thunderbird’s regional Centers of Excellence ensure that the School is now the world’s first truly “global multinational business school,” committed to training the next generation of global leaders.

As the world continues innovating and technology changes the way we live and work, Thunderbird is developing nimble, ethical, global leaders who can seize the opportunities offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution to create inclusive, equitable, and sustainable prosperity worldwide.

Learn more at: thunderbird.asu.edu.

Mission | Thunderbird educates, empowers and influences global leaders and managers who maximize the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for business, government, society and the environment.

Vision | Thunderbird School of Global Management advances inclusive, sustainable prosperity, and peace worldwide.