Since 1 January 2010, Pauline van der Meer Mohr presides the Erasmus University Rotterdam Executive Board. She is responsible for general administrative matters such as the relationship with the Supervisory Board and the University Council. She engages in strategic management, international affairs and external contacts such as the Rotterdam region, the corporate world and knowledge institutions.

Emmanuel Faber is Co-Chief Operating Officer, Human Resources, Social Responsibility and Innovation, the General Secretary and Finance. In 1997, he joined Danone to head the M & A and Corporate Strategy department. He was appointed Executive Vice President and CFO in 1999; he was successively appointed member of the Executive Committee of Danone in 2000 and then, Director of the Board of Danone in 2002. In July 2002, Emmanuel Faber was appointed Executive Vice President Finance, Strategy and Information Systems. In July 2005, Emmanuel Faber was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of the Asia Pacific. He holds seats on the board of various French and foreign companies.

Professor George Yip is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, and internationalisation. He has also conducted research on doing business in Asia and the internationalisation of Chinese companies. His current research concerns strategic transformation and global customers. He has won both “best teaching” and “best research” awards.

Diederik Laman Trip (1946) spent most of his career at ING where he was Chairman of the Postbank, RVS and finally Chairman of the ING Netherlands Board. Since his retirement in 2005 he is active in social activities, as Chairman of the Dutch Advisory Committee on Microcredits in the Netherlands, the Board of ANWB, Burgers Zoo Arnhem and other Cultural organisations. Next to that he coaches Executives. His children are out of their parents 'nest' and he is grandfather.

CARE International is one of the world's largest non-governmental humanitarian organisations, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Glasser is responsible for coordinating work of the Confederation, which is composed of 12 national members engaged in emergency relief and long term development work across the globe. Dr. Glasser has been working for CARE since 2003. Prior to coming to CARE he was Assistant Director General at the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). At AusAID Dr Glasser held responsibilities in a variety of areas including the Papua New Guinea and South East Asia programmes, Corporate Policy and Infrastructure and Environment. Dr Glasser has has published on a number of topics, including environment, peace and conflict, and development.

Currently, Wieteke works in the financial industry for Thomson Reuters as Manager, Customer Advisory Programmes. In this role, she manages interactions between customers and Thomson Reuters, mainly at the C-level executive level, which influence the future direction, innovation and investment decisions of the company. Previously, Wieteke worked, amongst others, for the UN World Food Programme in Bolivia and the Netherlands Ministry of Affairs; as assistant-attaché at the UN Budgetary and Administrative Committee in New York and as PA of the Prime Minister and his delegation during the General Assembly and Ministerial Week.

Wieteke believes young people, specifically in leadership positions, are essential in bringing change, amongst others to reach the alleviation of poverty and hunger. She was CEMS Student Board President 2004-2005. In 2006 she received the global Student Leadership Award by HRH Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark for her outstanding leadership and innovation in this role. Since 2007 she serves as Vice President of the Graduate Business Forum; a non-profit organisation that supports student governments of the top MBA programs in the world and aims at inspiring responsible leadership and action of young leaders.

Wieteke received her CEMS Master studying at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and ESADE. In addition, she holds a BBA and a Master in Strategic Management from RSM.

Cléo Biron holds an undergraduate degree from Concordia University in Canada, with concentrations in International Business and Finance. Upon graduation, she worked as a charity project manager for a Montréal-based NGO. Cléo's educational background, coupled with her extensive travels, are what first instilled in her an interest in microfinance. Since then, she has involved herself in numerous initiatives in order to further develop her knowledge on the subject. Cléo started her Msc Management and CEMS degree at the London School of Economics in September 2009. During the summer, she completed an internship at the UN/WTO's International Trade Center in Geneva. She is currently on her CEMS term abroad at ESADE Business School in Barcelona and has maintained an active position as a CEMS Student Board member.

Frédéric Dalsace teaches New Product Development and B2B Marketing at HEC Paris. In December 2008, he has been awarded the Danone Chair in Social Business / Entreprise et Pauvreté, a chair co-presided by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize Laureate, and Martin Hirsch, High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty. He is an HEC alumnus and holds an MBA with honours from Harvard Business School and both an MSc and a PhD in Management from INSEAD. Most of his research concentrates on inter-organisational (B2B) issues such as outsourcing, product development, and buyer-seller relationships, but he is also working on non-traditional branding strategies.