During his over 22 years’ academic and professional experience, Dr. Juan Carlos Rivera has focused on international business, global strategy, strategic negotiation, global innovation, international education, international economic policy, and global marketing, as well as extensive specialized practice in more than 55 countries on every continent of the world.

He acquired his considerable international skills throughout his career at PepsiCo, Bancomext, PEMEX International, the National Association of Universities, Tecnológico de Monterrey, and CENEVAL. Such opportunities have taken him to countries, cities, companies, and universities around the world, where he has played key roles as team leader, project manager, strategy developer, principal advisor, diplomatic representative, keynote speaker, manager, senior consultant, and CEO.

He has collaborated with multiple corporations, including the Institute of International Education, United Nations, World Bank, OECD, FedEx, Unilever, P&G, BMW, Lenovo, Bimbo, Grupo Carso, Roche, Huawei, Alsea, Bosch, Liomont, Renault, E&Y, Deloitte, KPMG, Adidas, LG and CEMEX, Bayer, and Ternium, among others.

Dr. Rivera is a professor of Strategy, Leadership, and Global Business for EGADE Business School, and an Executive Education consultant. In his career as an educator, he has served as a professor at the Mexico City, Toluca, and Monterrey campuses of Tecnológico de Monterrey. In addition, he has lectured at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris) in France, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China, the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the University of Edinburgh in the UK, the University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, Yale, Harvard, Boston College, Babson College and the University of Texas at Austin in the United States, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and institutions in every state of Mexico.  

Christiane Molina is Associate Professor and Researcher of the Strategy and Leadership Department at EGADE Business School. Since 2019 she has represented EGADE before PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education), an initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. She served as a member of the Global Chapter Council (GCC), and the PRME Principles Taskforce of that institution and, in 2024, she was confirmed to serve for another term as a member of the steering committee of PRME Chapter of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Dr. Molina teaches Strategy and Sustainability courses in different programs of graduate level at EGADE. Her recent research focuses on sustainability and conscious capitalism practices in organizations. Derived from this work she currently leads a project on Mexico’s dignified living standard and its implications for compensation and benefits systems and public policy. She has collaborated with various editorials projects that include Design for Vulnerable Communities from Springer, Routledge’s, Business with Conscience; Teaching and Learning Practices That Promote Sustainable Development and Active Citizenship, Increase it! Dignified Wage, 200 Mexican Entrepreneurs, the Construction of a Nation, Mexico, 10 Social Entrepreneurs, and Mexican Enterprises: The Journey to Conscious Capitalism. Other work has been published at Business & Society and Advances of International Management.

She was Academic and Research Director of the Conscious Enterprise Center between 2019 and 2023. Since 2015 she had been a coach of the Best Mexican Enterprises Program from Deloitte, Banamex and Tecnologico de Monterrey. She is certified as Independent Board Member by the Mexican Institute of Best Practices and as a B Multiplier by B System in Mexico. She collaborated in the Global Compact Mexico Network task groups focused on SD4, Quality Education. Before pursuing her MBA she worked in the Telecommunications’ sector in Nicaragua and Mexico where she worked as a consultant for Detecon Inc., subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.

She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. both from EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Thomas More University, Managua Nicaragua.

Professor Zapata Cantu’s research interests are focused on management and strategic planning in SMEs, the impact of information technology in the human resources area, knowledge management, and organizational learning.

In addition to having participated in national and international congresses, her research has been published in indexed journals, such as the International Journal of Manpower, European Journal of International Management, the Journal of Knowledge Management, the Journal of Studies on Administration, University of Chile and Rio’s International Journal on Sciences of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Management. In 2008, she received Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Award for teaching and research in the Department of Administration and Finance. 

Professor Zapata has been Academic Associate Dean at EGADE Business School and MBA Director in Monterrey, Director of the International Liaison Office in Barcelona of Tecnológico de Monterrey, and she has been a visiting professor in numerous universities such as the Postgraduate University Institute of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Alicante and University Carlos III (Spain) and ICN Business School (France).

Dr. Zapata has been a member of the SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores), Conacyt since 2006 and was made a Level 2 researcher in January 2017.