Powered by HSBC, with KPMG as knowledge partner
The Emerging Board Leaders Fellowship.
A board accelerator for high-potential Arab and North African leaders who are almost board-ready. It builds the fiduciary, risk and governance depth that makes an emerging leader a credible director, with particular weight on climate risk, ESG, and governing alongside AI.
0
virtual programme modules
0
full days, non-consecutive
0
fellows across three cohorts
ESG
climate-risk and governance core
Built for permanent weather
For people who will lead through transition
We designed the Fellowship for leaders who would govern through transition, not as a moment to get through, but as the permanent weather of this decade.
Fellows learn the governance fundamentals that hold regardless of context. They also learn to sit with ambiguity, and to treat entangled systems not as a problem to solve but as a reality to navigate.
What 65 fellows showed us
The numbers matter less than what happened underneath them
0
fellows accelerated
0
cohorts to date
Half
now serving on boards
0+
leaders trained across MENA
Our fellows arrived already identified as emerging board leaders, and the Fellowship catalysed what was waiting. We watched a generation discover that governance is not about control, it is about stewardship: decisions that acknowledge interdependence, and the discipline to hold the long view when everything pressures you toward the short term.
Three cohorts, sixty-five leaders
The proof is in the people. Browse the fellows by cohort, and open any name for their board-relevant story.
Who it is for
High-potential Arab and North African leaders who are almost board-ready: senior operators, founders, public-sector and civil-society leaders who need the governance depth and the credibility to convert experience into a seat.
How it works
An intensive cohort that compresses the climb: governance and fiduciary fundamentals, climate and ESG fluency, governing alongside AI, and the practice of deciding well under genuine uncertainty, with the relationships and credibility that open the room.
The Fellowship is powered by
Ready for the push?
Register your interest for the next cohort, or start on the self-guided pathway today.