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A good start

When I arrived at IE in April, I was excited about the 13 month journey ahead of me. Apart from the academics, I was also looking forward to the extra-cirricular activities in the form of clubs, especially. There was a huge collection of clubs representing functional areas, geographical areas and other activities.

I was quiet surprised though, that there was no representation of UK on IE campus. In a business school of very high standing such as IE, to have no representation of an important world econmy such as UK, I felt that is not right. Furthermore, I lived in UK the last 8 years, graduated and started my career in the wonderful city of London.
So, I felt an urge to start a new club to represent UK on IE campus.

The result is IE UK Club Madrid Chapter. Along with the regualr activities of any club, which to arrange Key spealers, Seminars, Information sessions and workshops, I wanted to do something different, something that is pretty common in many universities but non-existant on IE campus, might be particualarly due to the hectic nature of 1 year MBA - a Newsletter.
A Newsletter would be both an effective communication tool and also a probable revenue generating source through corporate sponsorships.
So, our first newsletter was out on Monday, July 19, a simple 4 page first edition to a series of bi-weekly newsletters. We covered a small but wide ranging selection of topics from current affairs and recent developments in the business world of UK.
We had some good reviews on our first effort and that is encouraging.

On a different note, I made contacts at the British Chamber of Commerce on Spain and the UK Investment Board, UK Embassy, Spain.

Finally, we had a good start for the UK club initiative and now we have some grand plans down the line.

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