HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Confers Honorary Doctorate to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel

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LEIPZIG, Germany, Aug. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Laudatory Address: Christine Lagarde

- Press Accreditation Procedure for the Event Now Open

We would like to invite you to participate in the press accreditation procedure

for the conferral of HHL's honorary doctorate to Federal Chancellor Angela

Merkel on August 31, 2019.

The conferral will take place within the framework of the graduation ceremony

for international students of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management at the

Leipzig Opera House, starting at 9:00 am. Christine Lagarde will deliver the

laudatory address. Accreditation may be obtained from 8:00 am.

The Central German Broadcasting Station MDR will head the pool for TV footage.

The pool will be headed up around 11:00 am. The pictures will be made available

live by MDR from around until estimated 12:30 (speeches included). This

material will later be available under the title HHL_Ehren_Ankunft and under

the title HHL_Merkel_Ehrendok via +49 (0)341 300 4712.The MDR kindly asks to

report your requirements by August 29, 2019 to the email address:

koordination-mdr-nachmittag@mdr.de.

Photographers and journalists without cameras may apply for accreditation using

the method detailed below. We may have to select those receiving accreditation.

Start of accreditation process: August 14, 2019

End of accreditation process: August 22, 2019

Notification of selection: from August 26, 2019

To apply for accreditation, please use the following website:

https://hhl-akkreditierungsantrag.eventbrite.de

Please use EDW_Akkreditierung as the password.

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL)

HHL is a university-level private business school with the right to award

doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. HHL was the first private German business

school to be accredited by AACSB in 2004 and was able to renew this status for

the fourth time just recently.

Photo:

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Contact:

Eva Echterhoff, HHL Graduate School of Management

presse@hhl.de

+49 (0)341-9851614

Source: HHL Graduate School of Management