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Student Insight: Charles Inwani
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In 2008, Charles began his studies on the MBA (University of Wales) with RDI. Below is his story.
Q) Where do you live?
A) Barisal / Bangladesh
Q) Where do you work?
A) I work full time. I am employed with the United Nations World Food Programme in southern Bangladesh where I manage an emergency operation to assist poor people affected by ravages of climate change like increasing ferocity and frequency of cyclones as well as the recent unprecedented increases in global food prices. Our programmes are essential in assisting these people not only meet their food and other needs but also adapt to the ever changing environment, thereby building their resilience to the inevitable shocks.
Q) Did you always think you’d study to MBA level?
A) Yes, I love to study. I enjoy the life pleasures of learning new things and I am always learning albeit informally. This is not the end of the road for me. I still desire to undertake a doctorate degree in the not too distant future.
Q) Any adversity or issues along the way?
A) Well, juggling work and school is not always easy. Sometimes deadlines call for delays on the school front. However, given a relatively isolated social life as I live alone in a remote part of a foreign country, I have more often than not been able to find the time for school and work.
Q) How has higher education changed your career, life or you as a person?
A) On the career front, the tools I keep gaining along the journey have come in handy making me a better employer as I contribute to instituting best practices. On a personal level I have increased self esteem as I approach achieving my academic goals. I believe knowledge makes us better people and I am certain my MBA is not driving me towards Wall Street with the aim of crashing the economy (just kidding!) but rather contributing to better management of the limited resources against increasing needs in the world of international development and humanitarian assistance.
Q) What will an MBA give you and where next?
A) I intend to take up a few other course especially in relation to international humanitarian law and probably something along the arena of climate change. This will be followed by a PhD in a people-centric area.
Q) Anything else you'd like to add?
A) I love quotes. Especially wise quotes with an effort towards humour. As my son often says - laughter is the best medicine. One great quote I have come across is that everything you have can be taken from you. All except what is in your head. Therefore investments in the arena above our necks (and I don't mean plastic surgery) is probably the best kind of investment. Freire once argued that no education is neutral. That we are the sum of our learning and experiences. I aspire to make me a better citizen of this globe through acquisition and sharing of more divergent critical knowledge. RDI I thank you for making this path I have chosen more realistic through offering this opportunity and more so through reasonable structured payments. Money hence is no longer an excuse, oops, I mean, reason! |
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