AMBA team
International Management Board
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Chair
Bodo B. Schlegelmilch
Chairman
Professor Bodo B. Schlegelmilch heads the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business and is Chair of the Association of MBAs and Business Graduates Association. For more than 10 years, he served as Founding Dean of the WU Executive Academy.
Initially educated in Germany, he obtained two doctorates (a PhD in international marketing and a DLitt in corporate social responsibility) from the University of Manchester (UK) and an honorary PhD from Thammasat University (Thailand). Starting at Deutsche Bank and Procter & Gamble in Germany, he continued his career at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Berkeley. Appointments as British Rail Chair of Marketing at the University of Wales (UK) and Professor of International Business at Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA) followed.
Bodo serves on several Business School advisory boards in Europe and Asia and is member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Marketing Science. He holds/held visiting appointments, for example at the Universities of Minnesota (USA), Keio (Japan), Leeds (UK), Sun Yat-Sen (China), Cologne (Germany) and the Indian School of Business (India), and has taught in over 30 countries.
Bodo received numerous teaching and research awards as well as Fellowships from the Academy of International Business, the Academy of Marketing Science and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. His research interests span from international marketing strategy to CSR, and his work has been published in a wide range of books and journals, such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and Journal of World Business. He has also been the first European Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association.
Enrique
Bolaños
Board Member
Enrique Bolaños
Board Member
Enrique Bolaños is the current rector of INCAE, following a distinguished career in international business. He is the first non-academic rector in the history of the institution and the second Nicaraguan rector.
Enrique has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a graduate of the INCAE MBA.
Enrique joined INCAE in 2012 as Executive Vice-president to lead the institution’s organisational and financial transformation. In two years he put together an excellent executive team, who helped him to increase financial sustainability of the institution, as well as to initiate other important projects.
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 H Kamel
Dean, School of Business at the American University in 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
Peter
Moizer
Board Member
Peter Moizier
Board Member
Professor Peter Moizer has been the Dean of Leeds University Business School since 2008.
Peter graduated with a chemistry degree from the University of Oxford and trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse before joining the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Manchester in 1979 and then moving to the University of Leeds in 1989 as its Professor of Accounting. He has been a chair and member of many EQUIS and AACSB peer review teams
He was an Editor of Accounting and Business Research for 13 years and a co-founder of the European Auditing Research Network. He has been a member of the Council and other committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, for whom he is one of two senior moderators for its professional stage examination. For eight years, he was a Reporting Member of the UK Competition Commission and contributed to the judgements on the economic regulation of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports, the merger to produce ITV, and the market inquiries into home credit and into BAA. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Greater Manchester Pension Fund (assets of some €24 billion). He has also produced reports to the DTI on issues relating to auditing, including an assessment of the audit monitoring regimes employed by UK accountancy bodies. He is a trustee of EFMD and a member of the EQUIS committee and the Deans and Directors General Steering Committee. His research interests are primarily in the area of auditing and he has published extensively in books and journal articles.
Gary
Narunsky
Board Member
Gary Narunsky
Board Member
Gary Narunsky is the CFO and a partner of Grovepoint, an investment firm which operates as principal investor and investment manager.
Gary also currently serves as a non-executive director of Payzone UK, a payments business which provides card acceptance services to SMEs as well as a range of products to attract footfall to their premises.
Gary is also a Board Observer of Arden University and serves on its Audit Committee.
Prior to joining Grovepoint, Gary spent 10 years as the Chief Financial Officer of 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 and was generating $500m of revenue and $80m of EBITDA on departure. 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.
Anju
Seth
Board Member
Anju Seth
Board Member
Anju Seth joined Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 2018 as its Director, having received her a master’s degree from IIMC in 1978.
Previously, she was the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Management at Virginia Tech and served as the Head of the Management Department from 2008-2013. She also served at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, and as Associate Professor at the University of Houston. Before earning her Ph.D. in Corporate Strategy from the University of Michigan, she spent several years in management consulting with A.F. Ferguson in India.
Dr. Seth takes a multi-disciplinary approach to her research and teaching in the areas of corporate strategy, acquisitions, restructuring, strategic alliances and joint ventures, corporate governance, and international business. Her scholarly papers have appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, as well other journals. Dr. Seth has received numerous awards for her research and teaching and serves or has served on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal and Journal of Management, and is an Associate Editor of Business Research Quarterly.
Steef van de
Velde
Board Member and
Chair, IAAB
Steef van de Velde
Board Member
Steef van de Velde is a 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
Anju
Seth
Director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
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
Ruth
Banomyong
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
Ignacio
de la Vega
Dean, EGADE Business School, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITSEM)
Peter
Yamakawa
Dean, ESAN Graduate School of Business, Universidad ESAN (UE)
Gastón
Labadie
Dean, Facultad de Administración y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad ORT Uruguay
AMBA Team
Andrew Main Wilson
Chief Executive
Officer
