ESA Business School

Established in 1996 following an intergovernmental agreement between France and Lebanon, ESA is a Business School dedicated to executives and managers' education in Lebanon and the Middle East and managed by the Paris Ile-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
With its mission to form the elite of Lebanon and the region into tomorrow's leaders, ESA has become a beacon of academic excellence within Lebanon and a platform for interaction and meetings between Europe, the Middle East, and Lebanon. Paying keen attention to businesses and their needs, ESA helps them develop their visions and help them better achieve their objectives by training and coaching their executives and managers. Situated in the center of Beirut, and at the heart of the Middle East, ESA asserts its reach as an essential international school, combining the talents of high-level learners and professors who rank among the world's most preeminent specialists.
These different factors, essential to the original idea's success, were regrouped under the banner of innovation and change. This was the founders' desire when establishing a prestigious Business School in Lebanon, and they had a clear mission: to train the Lebanese elite into the leaders of tomorrow.
Today, it is the professors and international experts, and the students from the country or the region, who drive this arena for privileged exchanges between Lebanon and France, and between Europe and the Middle East. From these exchanges is born a mutual enrichment that is unique. Our challenge is to educate citizens, accountable leaders, and actors of change in an era of globalization. Without relinquishing their culture and preserving their values and convictions, these ESA graduates develop an original and efficient leadership style, highly valued by businesses.
Many among them today have assumed essential responsibilities in their country or elsewhere in the world. Graduates now number over three thousand, representing all the communities and regions of Lebanon. They are always ready to take action for their School. Each in their way is an inspiration for Lebanon, France, or wherever they may find themselves, and as the years go by, none have forgotten their time spent on the campus of Clemenceau Street.