Welcome to the website of the Solvay Business School, the management school of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Our School currently has some 1500 students and each year we welcome more than 1000 managers to our executive education programmes.

The Solvay Business School was founded in 1903 by Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), a visionary and committed entrepreneur, who understood the fundamental role that knowledge plays in economic and social progress. Just over a century later, it is this unchanging passion for excellence, responsibility and the spirit of enterprise, as well as the same concern for the public good and a desire to reconcile economic development with human progress, that are the driving values of our School.

The Solvay Business School is recognized for its tradition of rigor and quality and employers recognise that our graduates are among the best in Belgium. Our mission is to respond through education, research and consultancy to the formidable needs of innovation, efficiency and governance of our democratic societies.

• We train leaders who can contribute drive, competence and integrity in the market economy as well as in development, public services, healthcare and other non-market sectors.
• We help decision makers to confront the challenges of today: public and private governance, sustainable development, innovation, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, managing development and democracy.
• The Solvay Business School is located in Brussels, the capital of Europe. We offer programmes in English, but all our students are trilingual and benefit from at least one stay abroad. Most graduates take up an international career at the end of their studies.
• We are part of a multidisciplinary university in which all disciplines are represented. Our teaching programmes thus benefit from the scientific input of the other ULB departments: economics, physics, chemistry, statistics, technology, law, psychology and sociology. The open-mindedness conferred through this approach represents one of the greatest assets for our graduates.

Finally, we are a business school that is open to the socio-economic world: our bodies of governance, our teaching and executive education programmes all benefit from the participation of the very best business leaders. Without sacrificing our independence or critical faculties, we have always maintained extremely close links with both the corporate world and the civil service.

I do hope that you will take some time to consult this website and find out more about the Solvay Business School.

Enjoy your visit and we look forward to hearing from you soon.

Alain Eraly
President, Solvay Business School