Wise Chief Executive Officer of Wisdom Education Group
Ahmed Rafi B. Ferry, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai based Wisdom Group of Institutions is a seasoned academician, administrator and financialwizard heading a conglomeration of educational institutions providing training and University courses in a wide variety of subjects ranging from management education to sports marketing.
As the CEO of Wisdom Education Group spread across four countries, the UAE, Oman, the UK and India, he works with about 100 expert staff recruited from different educational institutions and companies and has played a very crucial role in developing the Wisdom Education Group into an internationally reputed educational service provider. The tremendous growth witnessed by the group happened w within the last quarter century, and Rafi remained at the helm of affairs for a decade now. From the Biblical period, Wisdom is considered to be simply the art of learning how to succeed in life and about 25,000 students who have obtained expert training from an organization headed by wise men have definitely succeeded in their life and career.
Leading Indian Universities and educational institutions affiliated with the Wisdom Group include the prestigious Calicut University, Sikkim Manipal University, Madhurai Kamraj University, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Institute of Costs and Works accountants India (ICWA), Institute of Civil Engineers (India) and many more.
Equipped with a rich academic background and professional experience in various fields, he is simultaneously guiding the operation of a number of schools, colleges and affiliated companies in the Middle East and India. The Wisdom Group has grown to become one of the largest private education providers in the region. Rafi has been managing the Wisdom Education Group since 2004.
He has also been efficiently supervising the different University Programs offered through the Wisdom Group in the UAE and Oman. More than 5000 students from 12 nationalities are currently undergoing various professional education programs under the Wisdom Group of Educational Institutions, and as the group CEO Ahmed Rafi has chartered out aggressive expansion plans in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries as well as in India. A strong Wisdom Group alumni of 25,000 graduates work in different companies and institutions in the region, some holding senior positions in the corporate hierarchy.
Providing quality school and professional education to their children is a major concern for the overseas Indian community and a number of educational institutions and training centers have sprang up in the Gulf region and in India. Wisdom Education Group has played a crucial role in addressing the higher education needs of Keralite expatriates in the region. Students of 12 nationalities are studying in the Wisdom Group Institutions.
Rafi came to the Gulf after gaining three years’ experience as a faculty member teaching financial management, banking and management accounting to the undergraduate and post graduate students of Tagore College, Kerala. For eleven years, he worked as the accounting and managerial officer of a leading oil field company, Maritime Industrial Services Co LLC.
A Non Resident Keralite from Kumbala in the Kasargodu district of Kerala, India, Ahmed Rafi has completed a Master of Commerce degree from the prestigious Farooq College, University of Calicut, and in pursuit of his ambition to gain more knowledge,he continued his higher education from Australia. Rafi has been a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) from ICMA Australia. A lecturer of commerce, business studies and accounts at the Tagore College, Kasargodu, he came to the UAE to work as Accounts professional of Maritime Industrial Services Corporate office in Jebel Ali. From that ordinary job, he climbed up the corporate ladder to the much coveted CEO position, not a small achievement.
A strong Wisdom Group alumni of 25,000 graduates work in different companies and institutions in the region, some holding senior positions in the corporate hierarchy.
The elder son of late Abdulla and Asyamma of Ferry House in Kumbala, Ahmed Rafi is happily married to Salma, who too help him in smoothly running the Wisdom Educational Group institutions and ventures spread across the region. As India is slowly opening up the country’s higher education system for foreign investors and foreign universities, Ahmed Rafi is ready with a number of tie ups, affiliations and representations of leading international universities like the Edinburg Napier University, UK, Institute of Certified Management Accountants (ICMA), Australia, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), UK, City and Guilds UK, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK, Glundwr University, UK, and many other international institutions.
Leading Indian Universities and educational institutions affiliated with the Wisdom Group include the prestigious Calicut University, Sikkim Manipal University, MadhuraiKamraj University, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Institute of Costs and Works accountants India (ICWA), Institute of Civil Engineers (India) and many more.
Some of the prestigious and innovative new ventures started by Wisdom Group under the stewardship of Ahmed Rafi are the Wisdom Business School Free Zone Campus, UAE, located in the Ras al Khaimah Free Zone. Affiliated to the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) India, Madurai Kamraj University SMU and IGNOU, the campus offers weekend executive MBA programs from reputed universities and regular campus programs from the University of Calicut.
Through the Wisdom Group, University of Calicut has been offering its regular campus programs for bachelor and masters courses like BBA, B.Com and MBA in management. It is also offering the prestigious ACCA courses, UK, along with degree courses. The MBA programs offered through Wisdom Group campuses are much sought after by both expatriate students as well as employed executives in their pursuit of higher education and career development.
Wisdom International Academy and Wisdom Media School located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala are two young prestigious institutions under the Wisdom Group umbrella. As part of a long term plan to spread its operations in India, these two institutions are started within the last two years. The Media School is a unique venture, taking in view of the growing demand for trained media professionals to work in the proliferating number of television channels, radio stations and in the film industry.
Courses offered in the Wisdom Media Academy include Post Graduate Diploma in TV News Presentation & Anchoring, Diploma in Multimedia and Animation, Post Graduate Certificate programs in TV program and production, to name a few, which will mold future opinion makers and journalists. Those who graduate from the Wisdom Media Academy have a chance to do internship in the Glundwr University of UK, where they get a chance to work in a BBC studio Bachelor of Film andTelevision Productions (BFTP), Bachelor of Graphics Designing and Animations(BGDA), are the major media courses in degree programs. Those who opt for internship in India can get firsthand information about the television-media sector by working from the studios and offices of leading Indian television channels. The group has also been providing professional training for the medical and engineering entrance examinations, foreign language training programs in Arabic and English.
Contact Us
Wisdom Business School FZE
RAKIA Freezone RAK, UAE, PO box 35975
Phone :072432088
Fax : 07 243 20 88
Wisdom Educational Institute
Karama, Dubai, PO box 26791
phone : 043964455
Fax : 043964422
Email :
Web : www.wisdom.ae, www.wisdombs.com
Mob +971 50 4774 223 (UAE)
+91 999 523 9831(India)