Purpose and Mission
The Sainsbury Management Fellowship champions the benefits of a
combined business and engineering education to help improve the
performance of the UK economy.
The Sainsbury Management Fellowship (SMF) enables professional
engineers to add business, finance and marketing expertise to the
diverse skills they gained through their engineering training and
qualifications.
SMF has awarded over £7 million in scholarships to young
engineers with leadership qualities to enable them to gain a
Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) from
internationally renowned business schools.
The awardees of the scholarship scheme become Sainsbury
Management Fellows. Once an SMF, Fellows gain access to an
impressive network of professional contacts as well as
activities including networking events, courses, mentoring
and career guidance.
Without SMF support many engineers would not be able to secure
board posts and help the UK economy. SMFs use their combined
business and engineering skills to improve business processes,
performance and profitability, and create multi-million pound
businesses.
There are now 283 SMFs, who between them hold 220 directorships.
In addition, many Fellows hold multiple non-executive
director positions, bringing the total number of directorships
across the Fellowship to 400.
Each year up to 10 more young engineers with exceptional
academic qualifications and leadership qualities receive a £30,000
scholarship towards their MBA study, further extending the SMF
network.
Annual Report 2011
(Pdf download)
SMFs' Mission
- To promote continuing business education for all engineers to
develop their skills of innovation, and better management and
governance.
- To create and operate a charitable fund for the support of such
continuing education.
- To develop a network of engineers who are, or who have been,
engaged in such education in order to identify and illustrate its
merits for the public benefit.
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