Our People
International Management Board
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Chair
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Chairman
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch is Chair of AMBA and BGA and heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna. For more than 10 years, he served as founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy. He also founded the Vienna Executive MBA, a cooperation with the University of Minnesota, and led the program into the Financial Times Top 50 Global Executive MBAs.
Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble, he continued his career at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Berkeley. Tenured Professorships at the University of Wales, UK (British Rail Chair of Marketing) and at Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA (Head of Marketing Section) followed. To date, he taught in more than 30 countries on six continents, mainly in executive programs.
Bodo received numerous Awards and Fellowships for his teaching and research, such as from the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Marketing Science, the American Marketing Association and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He heads and is member of advisory boards of European (UK, Cyprus, Hungary) and Asian (China, Thailand) universities and business schools.
His research interests span from international marketing strategy to CSR, and his work has been published in leading academic journals, such as the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. In addition to some 150 journal papers, he also published more than 10 books in English, Chinese (Mandarin) and German.
Bodo has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Marketing and serves/d on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing, AMS-Review and many other leading academic journals.
Initially educated in Germany, he obtained two doctorates (in International Marketing Strategy and CSR) from the University of Manchester (UK), and an honorary Ph.D. from Thammasat University (Thailand).
Enrique
Bolaños
Board Member
Enrique Bolaños
Board Member
Rector, INCAE Business School
As Rector of INCAE Business School since 2015, Enrique Bolaños has focused on ensuring academic excellence and leading the transformation of the institute at all levels.
He has managed to consolidate INCAE as the best Business School in Latin America, according to the Financial Times ranking, and has led it to obtain the triple crown of accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS agencies, in addition to that of SACS.
Under his leadership, INCAE has strengthened ties with some of the most prestigious business schools in the United States, broadened the diversity of its faculty in terms of gender and nationalities, and renewed the academic curriculum of its master’s programs.
One of his greatest successes has been that, even before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, he had already laid the groundwork for an extensive program of online courses in partnership with Emeritus. With the launch of INCAE Online, in 2019 and under the guidance of Rector Bolaños, the institute successfully moved into high-quality online education.
His rectorship drove the founding of the Latin American Center for Entrepreneurship and has led landmark initiatives of other impact centers of the institute: the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development, and the Center for Collaborative and Women’s Leadership.
He is President of the Enrique Bolaños Foundation and a member of the Board of Directors of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUNIDES). He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from INCAE Business School. His work experience includes his role as CEO of Flexsys in Brussels, Belgium, where he successfully led the company to become a leader in the rubber additives industry.
He is married to Lourdes Chamorro César. Together they have five children and eight grandchildren.
Fangruo
Chen
Board Member
Fangruo Chen
Board Member
Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Fangruo Chen, has been Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, since August 2018. He is also Guangqi Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Professor Chen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985 with a dual bachelor’s degree in naval architecture and ocean engineering and computer science and technology. He received a masters from Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the US. In 1992, he started work at Columbia Business School successively as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Tenured Associate Professor. In 2005, he earned the title of Ira Rennert Professor of Business. In 2010, his title was changed into MUTB Professor of International Business.
Professor Chen has successively served as a distinguished visiting professor at many renowned universities, such as Stanford Business School, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University and Tianjin University. He is a former Chairman of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society in the US, and is the Founding Chairman of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE).
Professor Chen has been engaged in the research of operation management, supply chain management, and the interdisciplinary study of operation and marketing. In the field of international academic research, he has promoted the communication and cooperation between operation and marketing management.
He is a past winner of America’s National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (the former Presidential Youth Award) and a winner of the Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Josep
Franch
Board Member
Josep Franch
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 organized in 6 academic departments and 10 institutes and research groups.
Sherif
H Kamel
Board Member
Sherif Kamel
Dean and Professor of Management, School of Business, The American University of Cairo (AUC)
Sherif Kamel is a Professor Of Management, Dean of the School of Business at the American University in Cairo (AUC), and President of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
Before that, he was a senior advisor for strategic planning to the president and vice president for information management at the American University in Cairo. Before joining AUC, he was director of the Regional Information Technology Institute. Prior to that, he managed the training department of the Cabinet of Egypt Information and Decision Support Center.
Kamel is an Eisenhower Fellow. He is the Co-chair of the Board of Stewards of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative, a member of the AACSB International Middle East North Africa Advisory Council, Egypt-U.S. Business Council, and a founding member of the Internet Society of Egypt.
He was a member of the World Bank Knowledge Advisory Commission and chairman of the Chevening Association in Egypt. His research and teaching interests include digital transformation, information technology transfer to developing nations, decision support systems, and entrepreneurship. His work is published in information systems and management journals, books, and magazines.
He is the author of the NileView article series. He serves on the editorial board of Case Focus: The Journal of Business and Management Teaching Cases in the Middle East and Africa. He is the associate editor of the Journal of IT for Development and the Journal of Cases on Information Technology.
Kamel holds a PhD in information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MBA, a bachelor’s in business administration, and a master’s in Islamic art and architecture from The American University in Cairo.
Wendy
Loretto
Board Member
Wendy Loretto
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.
Emmanuel
Métais
Board Member
Emmanuel Métais
Gary
Narunsky
Board Member
Gary Narunsky
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.
Karen
Spens
Board Member
Karen Spens
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.
Steef van de
Velde
Board Member and
Chair, IAAB
Steef van de Velde
Board Member
Steef van de Velde is a former Professor of Operations Management and Technology and the Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
His research interests lie in the areas of operations excellence, service operations, and supply chain management.
He has published in the leading academic journals including, among others, the Management Science, the California Management Review, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, IIE Transactions, and the Journal of Scheduling.
Professor van de Velde holds an MSc in econometrics from the Erasmus School of Economics and a PhD in mathematics and computer science from the Eindhoven University of Technology.
Members of the AMBA & BGA Asia Pacific Advisory Council
Fangruo
Chen
Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management
Bob
O'Connor
Executive Director, QUT Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Simon
Wilkie
Dean, Monash Business School
Greg
Whitwell
Dean, University of Sydney Business School
Hiroyuki
Kurimoto
Chancellor (former Dean & President), Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (NUCB)
(Che) Ruhana
Isa
Dean, Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya
Somchai
Supattarakul
Dean, Thammasat Business School
Gulnar
Kurenkeyeva
Dean, Graduate Business School, Almaty Management University
Members of the AMBA & BGA Latin America Advisory Council
Gustavo
Genoni
Dean, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA)
Luiz
Brito
Dean, EAESP – Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo
Sergio
Olavarrieta
Former Associate Dean, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile (UChile)
Octavio
Ibarra
Dean, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad del Norte (Uninorte)
Enrique José
Bolaños Abaunza
President, INCAE Business School
Virginia
Lasio
Former Director, ESPAE – Escuela de Postgrad en Administración de Empresas
Peter
Yamakawa
Dean, ESAN Graduate School of Business, Universidad ESAN (UE)
Gastón
Labadie
Dean, Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad ORT Uruguay
AMBA & BGA Team
Executive Team
Andrew Main Wilson
Chief Executive
Officer
