ESCP Business School, Germany. Frank Jacob has taken up his position as the new rector of ESCP Business School in Berlin. He succeeds Professor Véronique Tran, who became ESCP’s executive VP for executive education and corporate relations on 1 July 2023. Frank Jacob was appointed professor of marketing at ESCP in 2002 and has been a member of the European Department of Marketing ever since. Frank was elected by the School’s Academic Senate and appointed rector by professor Léon Laulusa, executive president and dean of ESCP. In this role, he will strengthen ESCP’s outstanding position and excellence in teaching and research, and further develop its unique multicultural and multidisciplinary approach. “I feel honoured and grateful for the trust placed in me by the entire ESCP community. We want to further develop ESCP’s Berlin campus as a centre for management studies with the greatest cultural diversity in Germany. I am particularly keen to raise awareness among our students of the ethical standards of our European value system and to share these with our international graduates in all regions of the world.”