Dr. Tauhidul Tanin is a Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance and Business Economics at EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey. He holds a PhD in Finance from Monash University, Australia, and has over 12 years of experience in academia and industry, including roles as a Finance Manager and Research Analyst. His commitment to high-quality research is demonstrated through collaborations with professors from leading universities worldwide. His work has been published in top-tier journals, such as Energy Economics, The British Accounting Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, International Review of Financial Analysis, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainable Development, Research in International Business and Finance, and International Journal of Emerging Markets. His current research pipeline includes papers under revision and under review, and several working papers targeting leading journals.

Dr. Tanin consistently strives for teaching excellence, as evidenced by his PhD Corporate Finance course score of 9.83/10 in Spring 2024 and his MBA Analytical Foundations for Business (Finance) course score of 8.61/10 in Fall 2023. He achieved High Distinction marks in his PhD coursework, MSc, MBA, and BBA, and received numerous merit-based awards and scholarships, including the Monash Research Merit Scholarship for his PhD and the INCEIF University Full/President's Scholarship for his MSc. His academic excellence also earned him nominations for the Mollie Holman Award (Best Doctoral Researcher) and Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Thesis Excellence at Monash. His research interests include corporate finance, sustainable finance, climate finance, energy finance, behavioral finance, international finance, investments, financial markets, FinTech, financial analytics, asset pricing, and financial economics.

Dr. Tanin serves as a peer reviewer for 12 leading academic journals as well as for the Strategic Management Latin America 2024 Conference. He is the invited and sole Node Leader for Mexico in the InSPiR2eS Center for Responsible Science (IC4RS), which consists of 74 Node Leaders globally, including only four in North and South America. He serves as an invited Doctoral Thesis Evaluation Panel Member for a PhD candidate in Business Economics at Universidad ICESI in Colombia and as a Foreign Reviewer for PhD theses in Management Sciences (Finance) at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences in Pakistan. Additionally, he mentors three individuals: a post-doctoral fellow working on Corporate Governance, Climate Finance, and Sustainability; a PhD candidate in the academic job market, advising on job search and application strategies; and a potential PhD candidate on admissions, scholarships, and career guidance.

Rolando has experience working for the public sector, where he first held the position of Director of International Negotiations at SENER (Secretaría de Energía) and another executive position as Director of the hydrocarbons division. Regarding his academic achievements, he was a fellow of the London School of Economics (LSE), where he lectured and taught courses in Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy, while he also supervised master’s dissertations. In addition to that, he has also been a research fellow of the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, the IHS CERA, and the Center for Strategic Studies at Tecnológico de Monterrey. His research mainly focuses on new business models in the energy sector, innovation, and energy policy.

Before joining the EGADE faculty, he was a Research Fellow II for the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), an institution based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia which is focused on researching global energy economics.

Rolando has a Ph.D. in Environmental Economics by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), an M.Sc. in Environmental and Resource Economics by the University College London, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics by the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Professor Hernández Aramburo specializes in consulting in energy, financial innovation, portfolio management, risk management, and corporate funding.

Amongst Professor Hernandez’s professional activities are the leadership of Var Financiero, consulting in risk management, and balance management. He was also the Director of Funding and Risk Management of Global Markets at HSBC Mexico. He served in global banking as a Relationship Executive in Energy. He has served as vice president of structured finance at Citigroup in New York and sub-director of treasury and debt markets at Banamex. In the public sector, he has worked in the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit in the Direction of Financial Planning and the Office of Advisors of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations.

Professor Hernández has performed placements and operations with derived instruments for companies such as Pemex, CFE, Cemex, Banamex, Amovil, DaimlerChrysler, Compartamos, Aeromexico, Ferromex, and different municipalities. Several of these transactions have been acknowledged as deals of the year by the specialized press. 

In addition to his teaching activities at EGADE Business School, Professor Hernández has been a guest researcher at Bundesbank in Germany in Frankfurt.

He is also an Independent Advisor at CFE EPS I, an Independent Advisor Capitalization and Investment Fund of the Rural Sector, CKD EXI2, Chair of the Risk Committee of the Trust for Mining Promotion, and a member of the Board of the International Society for Mexico Energy (ISME).