INSEAD Claude and Tuulikki Janssen Endowed Scholarship Fund

INSEAD is by far the most international business school, and therefore Claude and Tuulikki Janssen have specially made this fund to attribute scholarships, to brilliant talented students of the INSEAD MBA programme, notably coming from developing countries, with limited financial means, to be able to study at INSEAD, make great careers and succeed in their professional lives, and also actively participate together with the INSEAD community, to further develop INSEAD and make a better world for everyone. CLAUDE JANSSEN 1930 - 2021 One of the founders of INSEAD with General Georges Doriot, his Harvard professor. Claude Janssen, for 65 years, till his last day, devoted his life’s benevolent work to INSEAD and to its development from the early stages of planning the creation with Georges Doriot in 1956. He was a member of the Advisory Committee (1959-1970), Executive Deputy Chairman of the Board (1971-1982) and Chairman of the Board from 1982 to 2004. Founder Chairman of the INSEAD World Foundation in Switzerland from 1998 to 2013, Vice-Chairman from 2013 until 2021. Under his chairmanship INSEAD opened in 1999 a second full campus in Singapore, making INSEAD the most international Business School in the World. Honorary Chairman of the Board 2004 -2021, Honorary Chairman of the International Council 2011- 2021. He has funded the Claude Janssen Chair in Business Administration and contributed to the financing of the INSEAD campus in Asia. Claude Janssen was a French banker, who after graduating from Paris Ecole Polytechnique and obtaining his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1955, joined the Worms group, a prominent private French group active in banking, insurance, shipping and industry, where he spent his entire career until 1996, mostly in the banking and international areas. He became one of the four managing partners of the Worms group in 1979. He served also on the boards of several corporations throughout his career. Claude’s wife Tuulikki was a Finnish diplomat, and when they married Doriot who considered Claude as a son, told her, “Claude has to take care of INSEAD, so you too!” So together they worked for the constant development of INSEAD and had the great pleasure to see INSEAD MBA ranked by Financial Times N° 1 in the world. When in 2021 Claude Janssen passed away, Ilian Mihov the Dean of INSEAD described his outstanding work and accomplishments: “Claude has done for INSEAD more than anyone else. To quote Doriot, our founder: Without action, the world would still be an idea. In Boston Harvard professor Georges Doriot had the idea, and Claude was the action that made INSEAD happen. Without Claude, INSEAD would not exist. Our entire community owes Claude and Tuulikki an immeasurable debt of gratitude.” * The exact amount of the award may be adjusted depending on each candidate’s financial situation.