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Peter Hirst leads the team of professionals who partner with clients and faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management to develop, design, and deliver innovative executive education programs for individuals and companies. Formerly CEO of the commercialization, consulting, and executive education business of the London School of Economics, he has over twenty years of experience in international strategy, technology consulting and organizational development.  Peter has also served as a director and board adviser to businesses and non-profit organizations on three continents.  He is a past president of the British American Business Council of New England, for which he currently serves as a board director, and a founding member of its Energy and Environment and High Tech Committees. Peter earned a PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, for research in plasma physics and microwave engineering.

A behavior change expert, Punam Anand Keller works with companies, foundations, and government agencies that are interested in changing health and saving behaviors. With a PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University, she currently serves as the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management and is a member of the Cancer Control Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon. Her current research focuses on application of social marketing principles and behavioral theory to consumer and employee wellness programs and is supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and the National Endowment for Financial Education and it. Punam also teaches Cause Marketing (marketing causes in for-profit organizations) and Social Marketing (marketing in governments and not-for-profit organizations). She is a recipient of the ‘Award for designing effective health-related communications’ from National Cancer Institute and the ‘Award for designing effective retirement savings communications’ from National Endowment for Financial Education.

“I believe quality education can be transformational. I’m excited to be working with highly reputed academic institutions in bringing transformational education to a global audience.”

Ashwin is passionate about making quality education accessible to the next generation of leaders across the world. At EMERITUS, he focuses his efforts on university outreach and academic collaborations. Additionally, he spearheads the Institute’s strategy and expansion in global markets.   Ashwin started his career at Citigroup and spent many years there in multiple roles. He did a brief but eye-opening internship for Dave Barger (current CEO JetBlue Airways) in New York. In 2005, he co-founded Travelguru, a company that was later acquired by Travelocity in 2009. Since then, he has been working in the higher education space.   An angel investor and advisor to multiple startups and entrepreneurs, Ashwin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 “Learning and leadership are two sides of the same coin.  Every great leader knows continual investment in their own learning is essential to their continued success as a leader.”

Bob brings to EMERITUS two decades of executive education, consulting, and senior management experience including leadership roles at Harvard Business School (Managing Director, Custom Executive Education), Babson College (Associate Dean), MIT Sloan School of Management (Executive Director of Executive Education), and Young Presidents Organization (Chief Education Officer).  Bob is a Research Affiliate at, and from 2010 to 2013 served as Executive Director of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, a research center that explores how people and computers can be connected so that – collectively – they can act more intelligently than any individuals or groups have done before. Bob has facilitated leadership development programs with Harvard Business Publishing, MIT Sloan School’s Innovation Period, Wharton Executive Education, Dartmouth Tuck Executive Education, Northeastern University’s Graduate Program in Leadership, and the Irish Management Institute, and has presented on leadership development and organizational change topics to executive and academic audiences in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in economics from Brandeis University.