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AMBA & BGA
Head of the Institute for International Marketing Management
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Bodo B Schlegelmilch heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and is Chair of AMBA & BGA. For more than 10 years, he was Founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy.
Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble, he continued his career at the University of Edinburgh, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wales, and Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Bodo holds a PhD in international marketing and a DLitt in corporate social responsibility from the University of Manchester as well as an honorary PhD from Thammasat University.
Board Member
Dean, EDHEC Business School
Emmanuel Métais was appointed Dean of EDHEC Business School in 2017.
Emmanuel has been on the EDHEC faculty for the past 25 years. Prior to becoming Dean, he served successively as Department Chair, director of various international programmes and the Global MBA at EDHEC, and as Associate Dean of its Grande École Programme.
He is a Board Member of the French Grandes Écoles de Management Association. His main teaching and research interests revolve around corporate strategy, with a specific focus on disruptive strategies and M&A performance. Emmanuel has published a book and more than 30 articles or book chapters pertaining to these themes in French and international academic journals.
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President
INCAE Business School
Enrique Bolaños is President of INCAE Business School, which has campuses in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
At INCAE, Enrique has led initiatives with the institute’s impact centres, focusing on social progress, entrepreneurship, and inclusive leadership. Since 2020, he has presided over the launch of the INCAE Online Programs, Master in Analytics, Innovation and Technology, Master in Agribusiness, and its first Online MBA.
He has also strengthened relationships with Business Schools in the US, including Yale and Babson College.
Enrique holds a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from INCAE Business School.
Board Member
Fangruo Chen is Dean of the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
His main research area is supply chain management and the interface between operations management and the other disciplines such as marketing and economics. He has received severalawards from both the US and China.
Chen has served many leadership positions in the field: Departmental Editor for Management Science, Area Editor for Operations Research, Senior Editor for M&SOM, President of the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society in the US, and Founding President of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE).
Chen was the MUTB Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, until 2018. He has a PhD in operations management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; and a BS in engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Board Member
Gary Narunsky is the Group Chief Financial Officer for Global University Systems. He serves as Executive Chairman for GUS Canada and GUS R3 and heads the GUS Investment Committee.
Gary is also a Board Observer of Arden University and serves on its Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Gary is the Vice Chairman of AMBA’s Board of Trustees and is the organisation’s Honorary Treasurer. He also serves as Chair of the Finance and Risk Committee and as a member of the HR and Nominations Committee.
Gary was the CFO and is a Partner of Grovepoint, an investment firm which operated as principal investor and investment manager.
He also currently serves as a non-executive director of Takepayments, a payments business which provides card acceptance services and specialises in providing payments solutions to SMEs.
Prior to joining Grovepoint, Gary spent 10 years as the Chief Financial Officer of global education group, Cognita, having been part of the founding executive management team. There he led more than 40 successful UK and cross-border acquisitions to build the group from a business plan to one which operated 65 schools in seven countries. Before joining Cognita, Gary was the Chief Financial Officer of GEMS Education UK, where he helped establish a UK presence for the organisation.
Gary obtained his MBA from London Business School after which he became a Vice President of Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking division in London where he focused in its Corporate Finance and M&A divisions.
Prior to coming to London in 1996 Gary was the Finance Director of CQS, a software company, of which he was a co-founder.
Gary holds an Honours degree in Commerce from the University of Cape Town and is a qualified Chartered Accountant CA(SA) having trained with Arthur Andersen in South Africa.
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Board Member
Josep Franch is the Dean of ESADE Business School since 2014, where he is an associate professor in marketing.
He has the academic and operational leadership of one of the most renowned academic institutions in higher management education, consistently ranked amongst the Top 10 in Europe and the Top 25 in the world; with an enrolment close to 1,400 undergraduate students and 1,200 graduate students, representing 100+ different nationalities; managing an operational budget above €60 million.
He leads a faculty body of 135 permanent faculty members organised in 6 academic departments and 10 institutes and research groups.
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President, BI Norwegian Business School
Karen Spens is the President of BI Norwegian Business School since August 1, 2022.
She is the former Rector of Hanken School of Economics where she became a professor of supply chain management and corporate geography in 2007.
Her main research area is humanitarian logistics, in which she has co-founded the HUMLOG institute as well as established the journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
She has also been the co-editor of International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, as well as served on many editorial boards of premiere logistics journals.
Her work has received funding from many different sources, and is published widely in leading academic journals.
She is active in different boards internationally, amongst others the board of directors of AACSB, and has been invited as a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.
Board Member
Sherif H Kamel
Dean and Professor of Management, School of Business, the American University in Cairo
Sherif Kamel is a Professor of Management and Dean of the School of Business at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He is also a board member at AMBA & BGA.
Previously, he served as Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning to the President and Vice President for Information Management at AUC. Before joining AUC, he was Director of the Regional Information Technology Institute.
Sherif is an Eisenhower Fellow. He holds a PhD in information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), as well as an MBA, a bachelor’s in business administration, and a master’s in Islamic art and architecture from AUC.
Board Member
Steef van de Velde
Former Dean and Professor of Operations Management and Technology, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM)
Steef van de Velde is a former Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) Netherlands, where he was also a Professor of Operations Management and Technology. He is a board member at AMBA & BGA.
Steef holds an MSc in econometrics from the Erasmus School of Economics and a PhD in mathematics and computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology.
Board Member
Board Member
Wendy is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Dean at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She has previously held several leadership roles in the School, including Director of Research and Director of Undergraduate Programmes. Her main research field is age and employment, with a particular focus on changes in employees’ and employers’ attitudes and practices in extending working lives. She is especially interested in the ways in which gender, age and health interact to affect work and retirement experiences amongst older men and women across Europe. Her work has received funding from research councils, industry partners, government and EU and is published widely in leading academic journals. She is on the Boards of Edinburgh Innovation and Standard Life Foundation, and is a member of the UKRI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion external Advisory Group.
Chancellor
(former Dean & President)
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (NUCB), Japan
Former Associate Dean
Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile (UChile)
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