Economist GMAT Tutor Awards $25,000 MBA Scholarship to Lebanese Finance Professional Seeking to Improve Gender Equality in the Workplace

NEW YORK, May 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Economist GMAT Tutor has announced the winner of its semi-annual Brightest Minds MBA Scholarship Contest.

The goal of the contest is to find one of the world's "Brightest Minds" who plans to attend business school, and help fund his or her education. This season's winner, Maria El Jichi, is a Lebanese finance professional who has been working in credit risk in the United Arab Emirates for the past five years. She beat more than 3,000 other contest entrants by scoring highest on Economist GMAT Tutor's GMAT simulation exam and writing the most compelling tie-breaker essay, winning out over 58 other top scorers.

Ms. El Jichi hopes to use her MBA to advance her career and contribute to increasing gender equality in the workplace. "I noticed that very few women held senior positions in companies," she explained. "I would like the future generation of girls to see it as a norm to have gender equality in the workplace and not an exception." To learn more about the winner and to read her advice on how to land a competitive GMAT score, visit Economist GMAT Tutor's blog.

She can apply her MBA scholarship prize towards tuition at any of the contest's participating business schools where she is accepted into an MBA programme. This season's participating business schools are:

• Alliance Manchester Business School
• Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam
• Copenhagen Business School
• EMLYON Business School
• International Business School
• Ivey Business School
• Leicester Castle Business School
• Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
• Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell
• Schulich School of Business
• University of Bath School of Management
• The University of Edinburgh Business School
• University of Liverpool Management School
• University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business
• The University of Virginia Darden School of Business

About Economist GMAT Tutor (gmat.economist.com)
Economist GMAT Tutor is an online GMAT prep course offered by The Economist Group. The online program guides students through the academic topics and test taking skills that they will need to master the test. The program is adaptive, meaning that it uses students' correct and incorrect answers to create tailored courses customized to their needs.

About The Economist (economist.com)
With a growing global circulation (more than 1.5 million including both print and digital) and a reputation for insightful analysis and perspective on every aspect of world events, The Economist is one of the most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications.

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