Samsung Global Scholarship Program (Samsung GSP or GSP) is a talent program of

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(SEC). Focusing on the goal of having talented personnel with strong business skills, leadership potential and career aspirations, SEC recognized the compelling need for high-quality leaders, hence the Global Scholarship Program was created to nurture a very selectively compiled group of individuals, who later in the long run might become leaders ("Future Global Leaders") of the various SEC subsidiaries around the world, replacing the Korean-national management layer (what is the usual practice at the

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). It differs from Samsung Scholarship, formerly known as Samsung

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Scholarship for supporting exceptionally talented Korean university students for global educations in mostly STEM (

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) fields. Divided into two paths, both programs originally selected participants who demonstrate academic excellence and leadership potential and provides them with unique opportunities for further professional development. Starting from 2011, GSP-SKK instead contains employees working in the subsidiaries. The program also provides young leaders with a unique international network through which they can share ideas, learn from established leaders, work collaboratively and address global challenges. By exposing participants to the complex issues and opportunities arising from an increasingly interdependent global economy, the program aims to expand perspectives and enhance skills critical for leadership in a changing world.

Scholarship program

Each year 15-25 individuals from different parts of the globe are offered to take part in the program that has two distinctive paths: an engineer and an MBA track: * GSP (M.S. Program) throug
Seoul National University
(SNU) * GSP (M.B.A. Program) through SungKyunKwan University's Graduate School of Business (SKK GSB)

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] The (Global) MBA program is notable for its diversity and pioneer nature. It was built and now run together with

since its foundation, and it was the first global English-only MBA program in Korea. Selected GSP students currently study for three semesters. It used to be four semesters, including a possibility of spending a semester at one of SKK GSB's top partner universities in the U.S. (

, Columbia, Northwestern's Kellogg, Michigan's Ross, Dartmouth's Tuck or Indiana's Kelly). SKK GSB Global MBA has been recently ranked by the Financial Times as the #1 MBA in Korea, Top 10 in Asia and 45th worldwide. The significance of the program can also be seen from the wide range of students who, as it was already in the first years, came from the leading companies including Cheil Communications,

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Woori Bank Woori Bank (Hangul: 우리은행 ''Uri Eunhaeng'') is a Korean multinational bank headquartered in Seoul. It is one of the four largest domestic banks in South Korea and is showing a strong presence not only for commercial banking but also for co ...

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, SK, Kyobo,

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, Bosch, KTF and several

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subsidiaries. After graduation, participants are offered various responsibilities at

and although some elected to follow a different career path (at management consultancies, for instance) many participants stayed with SEC.

Participants

Samsung Engineering Program

Selected in 2004

* Abhinav Arora (India) * Alexey Sidelnikov (Russia) * Feng Xingguang (China) * Pankaj Agarwal (India) * Sergey Seleznev (Russia) * Veronika Kondratieva (Russia) * Vidyesh Kumar Jha (India) * Shiva Ram Krishna (India) * Huang Ren (China) * Liu Wei (China) * Zhang Xiaojie (China) * Bao Xiaoyan (China) * Li Zhenmin (China)

Selected in 2005

* Hai Liu (China) * Ji Limin (China) * Liao Lingling (China) * Maria Samokhina (Russia) * Andrey Serov (Russia)

Selected in 2006

* Venkata Krishna Prasad Arava (India) * Lochan Verma(India) * Guo Chunxu (China) * Liu Jiakun(China) * Kirill Moklyuk (Russia) * Chetan Raj] (India) * Singhal Nitin (India) * Alexey Sokolov (Russia) * Stanislav Belogolov (Russia) * Yu Wang (China) * Xiaolin Xi (China) * Feng Zhu (China)

Selected in 2007

Kiran Tharanath
(India) * Abhishek Joshi (India) * Manish Kumar (India) * Sumit Srivastav (India) * Arseny Vitaljevich Povolotsky (Russia) * Artem Shamsuarov (Russia) * Sergey Georgievich Menabde (Russia) * Mao Shunfu (China) * Miao Hui (China) * Liu Yu (China) * Zhang Hairong (China) * Ji Yang (China)

Selected in 2008

* Subhojit Chakladar (India) * Ivan Koryakovskiy (Russia) * Alexey Bodrov (Russia) * Dmitry Vengertsev (Russia) * Nikolay Kuznetsov (Russia) * Stepan Tulikov (Russia) * Xing Nan (China)

Selected in 2009

* Rahul Singh (India) * Nalin Chakoo (India) * Liu Jin (China) * Alexei Boev (Russia) * Nikolay Burlutsky (Russia) * Nikita Kozhukhov(Russia)

Selected in 2010

* Elena Emelianova (

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

) * Valeriya Guseva (

) * Alexander Schus (

) * Ildefonso De La Cruz (

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

) * Thomas Morris (

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

) * Farah Al-Naimi ( UK) * Zhu Mingyoung (

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

)

Selected in 2012

* Husam Fahmi (Iraq) * Maria Bortnichenko (Russia) * Evgeny Kornev (Russia) * Sergey Lyubich (Russia) * Felix Penningsfeld (Germany) * Rajeev Ranjan (India) * Tushar Sandhan (India) * Sukanya Sonowal (India)

Selected in 2013

* Kamil Adamczewski (

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

) * Mattheus Miranda (

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

) * Anish Tamse (India)

Selected in 2014

* Pankaj Thorat (India)

Samsung & Korea University Graduate School of International Studies Program

Selected in 2002

* Ma Saiyou (China) * Liu Song (China) * Kunal Agrawal (India) * Supriya Chatterji (India) * James Ryan Jonas (Philippines) * Dorota Jachimek (Poland) * Anna Sawińska (Poland) * Krittawit Krittayaruangroj (Thailand) * Suchitra Wanatanakul (Thailand)

Selected in 2003

* Jing Jing (China) * Piyush Kunnapallil (India) * Karen Khristine Natividad (Philippines) * Jakub Dubaniewicz (Poland) * Anna Wasiela (Poland) * Michelle Yip (Singapore) * Tri Tung Nguyen (Vietnam)

Samsung MBA Program

Selected in 2004

* Dominika Dor (

) * Ilya Fedotov (Russia) * Olga Gordeeva (Russia) * Akshay Gupta (India) * Li Meng (China) * Pawel Rokicki (

) * Tamás Szekeres (Hungary) * Narumol Pichedpun (

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

) * Xu Tao (China) * Zhang Xiao (China) * Chen Yanyan (China) * Stephanie Wong Tzu En (

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

)

Selected in 2005

* Aalisha Chand (India) * Nguyen Thuan Dat (

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

) * Oksana Gladushyna (

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

) * Mishakova Olena (

) * Péter Hanti (Hungary) * Ding Jie (China) * Lu Jing (China) * Peter Komornik (

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

) * Ambrus Kovács (Hungary) * Saurav Singla (India) * Trinh Khac Toan (

) * Poramet Visetruangrote (

) * Zhang Xu (China) * Liu Xuan (China) * Song Yaning (China) * Igor Kurilin (Russia)

Selected in 2006

* Nikita Andriyashin (Russia) * László Bánhegyi (Hungary) * Feng Jin (China) * Renju John (India) * Dénes Korsós (Hungary) * Jenny Luna (

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

) * Mihaela Marinitu (

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

) * Nguyễn Minh Thư Nhiên (

) * Kvetoslava Polcová (

) * Gustaf Rössner (Sweden) * Çınar Şahin (

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

) * Petr Shchekochikhin (Russia) * Vadim Sukhovey (Russia) * Nussaraporn Sumretphol (

)

Selected in 2007

* Abu Nasar Siddiq Alvi (

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

)
Georgi Boykov Bonev
(

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

) * Alexandru Costache (

) * Rachel Dwiayutia (

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

) * Peera Kasemtanakul (

) * Nguyen Le Khoi (

) * Marina Lyubimova (Russia) * Deepak Sachan (India) * Venkata Aditya Sankarabhotla (India) * Jayant Sidharth (India) * Alexandra Sipos (Hungary) * Ban Thuy Kieu Trang (

) * Fei Yu (China) * Nguyen Le Khanh Vy (

)

Selected in 2008

* Yukti Garg (India) * Varun Swaminathan (India) * Famuyiwa Opeoluwa (

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

) * Phan Thi Kim Duyen (

) * Nguyen Thi Thu Ha (

) * Alexandra Podrumaru(

) * Viktors Ivanovs (

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

) * Amir Gorgan (Canada) * Mehdi (Cyrus) Tabatabaei (

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

) * Adeline Quek (

) * Suzanne Otieno (

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

) * Xijie Li (China) * Quan Sun (China) * Olga Alexandrovna Egorova (Russia) * Seif El-Din El-Hakim (

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

) * Kalamkas Mambeteyeva (

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

)

Selected in 2009

* Ritesh Chugani (India) * Amr Mostafa (

) * Gustavo Nakano Athayde Franca (

) * Silvia Manami Kawamura (

) * Samuel Odhiambo (

Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

) * Joaquin Melendez Sanchez (

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

) * Luciana D'Abramo (

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

) * Ezenwanne Chima (

) * Wang Rui (China) * Alper Gul (

)

Selected in 2010

* Pedro Costa (

) * Victor Valdes(

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

) * Ayoub Derdabi (

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

) * Eleonore Fontaine (France) * Daniel Tuckman (United States) * Divesh Sooka (

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

) * Marina Voskoboynikova (Russia) * Osama Elobeid (

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

) * Jiayue Tao (China)

Selected in 2011

Usman Tariq
(

) * Nuruddin Abdulla Khatri (India) * Jerry Halim (

) * Pham Phuong Linh (

) * Li Xiang(China) * Mee Soo Kim (

) * Akshay Gupta (India)

Selected in 2012

* Jenny Shull (United States) * Robert Hodges(UK) * Roberto Jimenez(Spain) * Nguyen Van Quynh (

) * Viet Thanh Pham (

) * Sandeep Gupta(India) * Pankaj Narayan (India) * Andriy Baranovskyy (

)

External links

Samsung Electronics(in English)
* Samsung GSP
Russia

Seoul National University (SNU)(in English)

SNU Department of Electrical Engineering(in English)

SungKyunKwan University (SKKU)(in English)

SKK Graduate School of Business

References

대학 교직원 인재영입 `붐` (Competition among universities to secure talents)

성균관대‥영어로 수업ㆍ美MIT 슬로언 등과 연계 (SKK GSB in collaboration with MIT Sloan)

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20071107012426/http://gsb.skku.edu/about/news_view.html?board=news&uid=40&cp=4 국내에서 만나는 국제수준의 MBA (SKK GSB - world class MBA program in Korea)
성균관대 MIT MBA 첫 외국인 졸업생 (International students in the 1st SKK GSB alumni)

* ttp://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=klemkosky&y=4&aje=true&x=14&id=031124001036 Samsung supports Seoul school
성대·MIT, MBA 과정 출범

월리엄 파운즈 MIT 前학장 "외국 MBA 베껴서는 절대 성공못해"

성균관대 경영대학원 ‥ MIT대 커리큘럼 이용

Samsung Educational Programs on the Moscow State University site
{{Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Scholarships in South Korea