Sainsbury Management Fellows

Welcome to Engineers in Business Fellowship (EIBF). EIBF awards the Sainsbury Management Fellows MBA scholarships.The SMF scholarship scheme enables professional engineers to add business, finance and marketing expertise to their engineering skills. Each year EIBF awards £500,000 of MBA scholarships to talented young engineers with exceptional education qualifications and leadership qualities.On graduation, the scholarship awardees become Sainsbury Management Fellows and gain access to an impressive network of professional contacts and activities including high-level networking events and mentoring.There are 365 Sainsbury Management Fellows. All Fellows have graduate degrees from the leading centres for engineering education, as well as their MBA. About 80% are employed in industry or services to industry and 70% of these are based in the UK or work for UK firms. Sixty Fellows own and manage small to medium-sized enterprises. The average age is 37. Most Fellows are multilingual, having gained international exposure from working and/or studying abroad.To apply for an SMF scholarship visit www.smf.org.uk.EIBF’s aims: 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.EIBF Background: In the 1980s, David Sainsbury (now Lord Sainsbury of Turville) felt that there should be more people in the boardrooms of British industry who have both the knowledge of how things are made and effective management skills. To help bring about a change in business culture in the UK, in 1987 Lord Sainsbury set up the Sainsbury Management Fellowship scheme to develop UK engineers to be leaders in industry.