Education
In 1995 he founded the business school event Euro Master of Business Administration Tour, organising a Paris Fair to introduce business schools to potential Master of Business Administration applicants.
In 1995 he founded the business school event Euro Master of Business Administration Tour, organising a Paris Fair to introduce business schools to potential Master of Business Administration applicants.
He is co-author with Alain de Mendonca of the bestselling guide to business schools, American Broadcasting Company of Getting the Master of Business Administration Admissions Edge, sponsored by Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company
In 1998 he partnered with Nunzio Quacquarelli, editor of the TopMBA Guide to create the QS World Master of Business Administration Tour. The Tour operates in over 40 countries, attracting more than 60,000 visitors every year to meet with 380 business schools. Participating business schools include University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business, Cambridge Judge Business School, Ceibs, Chicago GSB, Columbia Business School, Cornell South Carolina (U.S.) Johnson Graduate School of Management, Duke Fuqua School of Business, EM Lyon, Escuela Superior de Administraciónew york Dirección de Empresas , Harvard Business School, Higher Education Commission, HKUST, Individual Education, International Graduate School of Management, Institute for Management Development, European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), Kellogg School of Management Northwestern, London Business School, New York University Stern School of Business, Oxford Saïd Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Tuck School of Business, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, University
Michigan Ross School of Business, University
Virginia Darden School, Wharton School, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and the Yale SOM. Symonds contributes to a number of international publications on business education and management, including The Economist, BusinessWeek, Forbes, The Times, Handelsblatt, and The Independent. Forbes The Economist Forbes The Economist BusinessWeek The Independent Handelsblatt and The Times United Kingdom.