Deborah Cousin

In July I will be graduating from University College London with a Bachelor of arts and science where I studied economics, business-related subjects as well as environmental sciences. Before studying in London I lived in Singapore for 6 years. People generally describe me as an outgoing, positive and curious person.

I always give the best of myself in what I learn and pursue. Outside of school and work, I am passionate about ballet and debate. I practised ballet as a pre-professional dancer since I am 12 years old.

Since more recently I am passionate about rhetoric and eloquence. Last year I went to the quarter-finals of the french debate national competition.

My more recent work experience was this summer at SAP Singapore. For four months I was part of the Learning and Sustainability team within the Customer Advisory worldwide Division of SAP. I was in charge of building a sustainability learning programme designed to enable 400 SAP employees.

To build this enablement programme I led workshops to define competencies and learning needs in terms of sustainability of the US, EU, Asia Pacific and LATAM sales teams. I also conducted a research project to identify and evaluate sustainability internal and external resources. It has been very rewarding to collaborate in teams with a diversity of people from all around the world.

I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences at University College London where I am majoring in societies and minoring in sciences and engineering. During the last two years, I had the pleasure to learn from passionate teachers about a range of subjects. I took courses in Management, Marketing, Game theory, international strategy, Microeconomics and Environmental sciences.

This interdisciplinary learning allowed me to develop versatile skills in problem-solving, analysing information, communicating findings clearly as well as critically assessing findings in order to provide recommendations.