EGADE Business School announced the incorporation of Jaime Martínez Bowness to the Institution as Site Director of EGADE Business School in Mexico City, as of June 3, 2019.

"With the leadership of Jaime and the collaboration of the entire team we will continue to consolidate the positioning, impact and influence of EGADE Business School in Mexico City," said Ignacio de la Vega, Dean of EGADE Business School, through a statement.

Martínez Bowness is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in the areas of education and development of human capital in Mexico. During the past eight years, Jaime has served as General Director of Fundación Pro Universitaria, a non-profit platform he founded to promote youth employability programs and skills development, as well as the Pro Meritum initiative, one of the largest programs of internships from Mexico.

He was previously Co-founder and part of the leadership team of the Citibanamex Youth of Excellence program, which provides training and mentoring to outstanding young people to access postgraduate studies worldwide.

He has also been Co-Founder and Director of TestPoint, a preparation center for international postgraduate admission exams, while serving as Admissions Advisor for Latin American applicants to global universities at the graduate level.

He has also been a Senior Investigator in Human Capital of the Development Research Center, A.C. (CIDAC), Advisor in the General Assembly of the National Electoral Institute and Strategy Advisor in Semarnat. He has also collaborated as editor and columnist in various Latin American business publications and is the author of several academic essays.

Martínez Bowness has an MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Duke University (Fuqua School of Business) and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from ITAM. He has also completed continuous development programs at the University of California.