We are delighted to invite Kingsley Aikins, a renowned authority in Ireland on business networking, to address MBAAI members and guests in the RDS Members Club at 6.30pm on Wednesday, 29th October 2025.

Dublin-born, Kingsley is an Economics and Politics graduate of Trinity College Dublin who has lived and worked in six countries around the world. He returned to Ireland in 2011 and established The Networking Institute.

For ten years he worked for The Irish Export Board and IDA Ireland and was based in Sydney. While there he established The Lansdowne Club – now one of the biggest Irish business networks in the world. He then ran Ireland’s largest diaspora organisation, The Ireland Funds, based in Boston. During his 21 years with The Ireland Funds over a quarter of a billion dollars was raised for projects of Peace, Culture and Charity in Ireland. He, with his colleague, Dr. Martin Russell, established The Diaspora Institute and they  have worked with over 50 countries, regions and cities around the world helping them develop strategies to engage with their diasporas. Their objective is to position Ireland as the leading country in the world for diaspora engagement.

Kingsley is a former Trinity, Irish Universities, Vichy (France) and Leinster rugby representative. In 2012 he was awarded a CBE for his work on British-Irish relations.

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We are delighted to welcome HBR professor and author Raj Choudhury to Dublin. He will address MBAAI members in the RDS Members Club on Thursday, 13 November 2025 at 6.30pm, on “The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation”, which is the subject of his latest book.

The last few years have been a global experiment in work arrangements, revealing that many more jobs can be done remotely – and in a distributed fashion – than previously assumed. But companies that have adopted a hybrid arrangement, where workers are required to be in the office several days a week, are missing out on the biggest advantage that remote work can offer: the ability to Work From Anywhere (WFA), argues Harvard Business School professor Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury.

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work. In particular, he studies the productivity effects of geographic mobility of workers, causes of geographic immobility and productivity effects of remote work practices such as ‘Work from anywhere’ and ‘All-remote’. He is an Associate Editor at Management Science and was included in the 2023 Forbes Future of Work-50 list.

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