MCLEAN, Virginia, July 15 --
Kai Peters, dean/director, Ashridge Business School, United Kingdom, has been
selected as 2009-10 chair of the board of directors for the Graduate Management
Admission Council (GMAC).
Peters, whose term of office runs through July 1, 2010, leads a 14-member board
that includes representatives from academe and industry in 19 countries. The
board sets strategic goals and guides the nonprofit education organization,
which has a membership of 177 leading graduate business schools worldwide. GMAC
also owns the GMAT exam, used by more than 4,600 business programs and almost
2,000 universities as part of the admission process.