LBS welcomes its 100th Laidlaw Scholar

We are delighted to welcome Jiaxing Mou as the one-hundredth recipient of the Laidlaw Women’s Leadership Fund.

Each year, the Laidlaw Women’s Leadership Fund provides tuition support to 20 women from across the School’s MBA, Executive MBA and Masters in Management programmes. The Fund aims to increase the proportion of women in senior leadership roles in business and on executive boards globally. Jiaxing joins the latest cohort of outstanding women from diverse backgrounds and countries including Canada, China, Georgia, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

Commenting on her scholarship, Jiaxing says:

“Being the 100th Laidlaw Scholar feels like a rare and fortunate blessing – ‘百’ (Hundred) symbolizes completeness and perfection in my culture. I stand at London Business School with a heart full of gratitude and a deep sense of responsibility. This scholarship is not just financial support, but a sacred trust – a commitment to inspire and uplift others.”

Through our Forever Forward campaign, we aim to double our scholarship offer to attract the best and brightest and transform access to world-class business education. Thanks to the generous support of the Laidlaw Foundation, we are making progress toward this ambition by providing tuition assistance and living stipends to women from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who have the proven ability and ambition to reach the C-suite and lead with integrity and impact.

Susanna Kempe, CEO of Laidlaw Foundation, explains:

“The world demonstrably needs better leaders in every sector and every geography. By providing access to the knowledge and networks of a world-class business school, we hope to propel more women into high impact leadership roles; addressing both the gender pay gap and the under-representation of women in power.”