Nakisa has appointed Saleh Bahrololoum MBA’17 as Managing Director for the GCC region. In this role, Bahrololoum will shape Nakisa’s growth strategy, oversee regional operations, and deepen partnerships amid accelerating demand for AI powered enterprise solutions.
Since joining Nakisa in 2018, he has held several senior leadership roles, contributing to the company’s global expansion and enterprise platform scaling.
Canada’s economy is shifting quickly, and RBC is working with a number of universities to deliver microcourses, short, targeted training to help users gain sought-after skills at no cost.
The McGill Personal Finance Essentials course is one of them. Developed in collaboration with McGill University, Western University, and the University of Guelph, RBC Online Microcourses offer Canadians a faster, more accessible path to job-ready learning.
This International Women’s Day, Desautels researcher, Janani Ramesh is urging us to see the big picture—by focusing a little less directly on success stories of individual women. “Initiatives that celebrate how far women have come or single out women’s resilience do the opposite of what’s intended,” Ramesh told HR Reporter.
At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, Canada finished eighth in the total medal count. It was the country’s lowest Winter Olympic medal tally since the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. The result is a failure of leadership; Prof. Karl Moore writes in Forbes.com. For many would-be Olympians, the costs are simply out of reach. Elite athletic programs don’t get sufficient funding, and according to the Canadian Olympic Committee, athletes are paying an average of $25,000 each year out of pocket just to compete.
A special meeting of Air Transat shareholders, scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, will determine the future leadership of the company. Pierre Karl Péladeau’s investment firm, Financière Outremont, is the airline’s largest shareholder; he is calling for a smaller board of directors.
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In a recent piece in The Conversation, Professor Emmanuelle Vaast examines the growing tensions between the use of artificial intelligence in warfare and surveillance. The discourse is prompted by a decision from AI company Anthropic, whose CEO refused to grant the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI systems. The company established two "red lines": prohibiting the use of its technology for mass surveillance of citizens and preventing the deployment of fully autonomous weapons without having human oversight.
McGill University’s expansion into Luxembourg is being spearheaded by finance professor Patrick Augustin, who initiated talks with the Ministry of Finance, ABBL and ALFI after identifying a gap in high‑level, finance‑focused executive education.
Canada’s proposed open banking legislation, Bill C 15, could become a powerful tool for women experiencing economic abuse, according to researcher Sebastien Betermier. The framework would allow consumers to securely share their financial data with trusted third parties, helping survivors access crucial records without relying on abusive partners.
Affordability has reached a breaking point, and most households now depend on two incomes just to stay afloat. In this environment, telework has become essential, Jean Nicolas Reyt told La Presse.
Europe is aging, and some national pension funds are better prepared to manage its changing demographics than others. Many European countries use a ‘pay as you go’ model in which current workers fund the retirement of current pensioners. An aging population strains this type of pension model, but changing the model would be a hard sell, according to research by McGill Desautels Associate Professors Patrick Augustin and Sebastien Betermier.
Remote work leapt into the public consciousness during the Covid-19 pandemic, when many jobs shifted to a fully remote model for public health reasons. However, the concept of telecommuting long predates the pandemic. “It was invented in the 1970s, for environmental reasons,” Jean-Nicolas Reyt told La Presse.
In a ruling on February 20, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was illegal. The ruling could be good news for companies that paid tariffs over the past year, but consumers who paid higher prices for tariffed products aren’t likely to get any money back, according to Vivek Astvansh, an Associate Professor at McGill Desautels.
Doyin Agbaje, MBA'27, brings an exceptional record of academic achievement, professional experience and community leadership to the McGill Desautels MBA program. A Nigerian Canadian, Doyin earned the Lieutenant-Governor's Medal upon graduating as valedictorian from Douglas College before building a career as a marketing specialist at Apple. She also ran the Black Block Association, a non-profit responsible for one of Vancouver's largest Black community events.
The Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) Initiative was proud to support this year’s Dare to Venture student startup pitch competition, hosted by the McGill Entrepreneurship Society (MES), by contributing half of the $1,000 grand prize and participating in the expert judging panel. Dr. Niels Billou represented E&I as a member of the judging panel, helping evaluate the finalist pitches.
As global trade wars, geopolitical tensions and AI advances reshape financial markets, pension funds face mounting pressure to adapt. Sebastien Betermier, Associate Professor of Finance at McGill Desautels, argues that 2026 demands three priorities from pension leaders: building more agile portfolios capable of withstanding regime shifts, forging proactive partnerships with governments on infrastructure investment, and rethinking their exposure to private markets as retail investors flood in.
