He is a director on the boards of Insper, Digipix and Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the Global Advisory Council of London Business School, a Fellow Commoner of Christ’s College at Cambridge. His other activities include: director on the board of Hospital Albert Einstein since 1974; and a member of its Board of Auditors since 1992; director on the board of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo; member of the Superior Board of the Jockey Club of São Paulo.

 

He was born in São Paulo, in November 1947. He studied through high school in São Paulo; B.A. from Christ’s College, Cambridge University (1968); MSc (Economics) from London Business School (1970); M.A. from Cambridge University (1972); Honorary Fellow at Tel Aviv University (1990).

Francis Patrick Kelly is Emeritus Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization. He is especially interested in applications to the design and control of networks and to the understanding of self-regulation in large-scale systems. He is a Fellow of the (UK) Royal Society and an International Member of the (US) National Academy of Engineering.

He spent the academic year 2001-2 as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department for Transport. He was a member of the RAND Europe Council of Advisors from 2008 to 2015, and Master of Christ’s College Cambridge from 2006 to 2016. He is currently chair of the Isaac Newton Trust and a trustee of the Alan Turing Institute.

 

Helena Alviar García is a professor at Sciences Po law school.  Professor Alviar García is a Colombian SJD from Harvard Law School and lawyer from Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She served as Dean of Los Andes Law School where she also held tenure as full professor (profesora titular), teaching courses on Property, Public law, legal theory and feminist theory. She has been a visiting professor in universities in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Notably, she was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 2017; the Bok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Penn Law School in 2015 and the Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2008.

 

An expert in authoritarianism, granting rights to nature, transitional justice, feminist legal theory, law and development, property law, social and economic rights, she has been invited to participate in global networks regarding these issues and has edited and co-edited volumes with academics from Latin America, Europe and the United States. She is the author of books, book chapters, academic papers and essays including: Feminist Frontiers in Climate Justice: Gender Equality, Climate Change and Rights 2023 (co-edited volume with Cathi Albertyn, Meghan Campbell, Sandy Fredman and Marta Rodríguez de Assis Machado) Legal Experiments for development in Latin America: modernization, revolution and social justice (2021), The Legal Architecture of Populism (2020) in the book Human Rights in a Time of Populism; Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Critique and Appraisal (edited by Gerald Neuman), Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique, co-edited with Günter Frankenberg (2019); The Distributive Politics of Impunity and Anti-Impunity: Lesssons from Four Decades of Colombian Peace Negotiations (co-authored with Karen Engle), in Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (2016), Distribution of resources led by courts: a few words of caution in Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice (2014), Feminismo y crítica jurídica. El análisis distributivo como alternativa crítica al legalismo liberal coauthored with Isabel Jaramillo (2012).

 

Professor Alviar García is also the co-founder of Dejusticia, one of the leading human rights NGO’s in the Global South, a member and co-founder of a network that groups feminist legal scholars in Latin America, Red Alas and an academic member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy-IGLP- at Harvard Law School.

Ian O. Williamson is dean of The UCI Paul Merage School of Business. During his 22-year career, Williamson has served on several academic committees and on the boards of directors for a variety of nonprofit organizations.

 

In addition, he has provided expert insights in the areas of organizational innovation and employee recruitment and retention to executives in more than 20 countries across six continents for companies such as CBRE, PwC, Lockheed Martin, Nestle and Accenture.

João Amaro de Matos is Vice Rector of Nova University, Lisbon, having joined Nova School of Business and Economics in 1995, where he has been Associate Dean for International Development (2005-2017) and Director of the PhD Programs.

 

He worked for the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as an expert for the internationalization of Cuban Universities, was a member of the International Board of the Strasbourg Business School, and was a member of the Executive Board (2007-2017) of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS), chairing its Research and Doctoral Education Committee (2008-2012) and its Quality Assessment Committee (2015-2017).

 

He holds a PhD in Management (1995) from INSEAD and a PhD in Physics (1988) from São Paulo University. He was a visiting scholar at Heidelberg University (1988-89), at the London School of Economics (2002), and at the MIT (2012). He teaches Corporate Finance, Investments, Derivatives, Risk Management and Continuous-Time Finance at all levels. Additionally, João Amaro de Matos has taught in various European and Brazilian schools such as INSEAD, HEC Geneva, INSPER and Getulio Vargas Foundation.

 

He is the author of the textbook “Theoretical Foundations of Corporate Finance”, (Princeton University Press, 2001), and also of “Sustainability and Organizational Change Management”, (Routledge, 2015). He wrote more than 50 scientific works among books, chapters, papers, and conference proceedings. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Econometrics, European Journal of Finance, Mathematical Finance, Journal of Statistical Physics and Physica A, among others. João Amaro de Matos has participated in numerous conferences and seminars and has supervised many MSc and PhD thesis in the area of Finance and Economics. He has founded and organized since 2007 the annual Luso-Brazilian Finance Meetings.

Jikyeong became the tenth and first female President of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) on October 6, 2015, only nine months after joining AIM as Dean and MVP Chair in Marketing. In July 2019, in recognition of her numerous and significant contributions, the AIM Board of Trustees extended her appointment as its concurrent President and Dean through 2025.

 

Since joining AIM, Jikyeong has introduced many new initiatives and four new Masteral programs, and established a new School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship to house three of those four new programs (i.e., the Master in Entrepreneurship, Master of Science in Innnovation and Business, and Master of Science in Data Science). The new School, along with the Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems Laboratory, with the fastest super-computing facility in the Philippines, gained immediate traction and endorsement from industry, government, and potential students. Last year, shortly after launching the new School, she successfully brought in the single largest cash donation in the history of Philippine education, thereby increasing AIM’s endowment by 50%. To honor the donor as well as the intent of the endowment, the new School was named the Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (ASITE).

 

Prior to assuming her post at AIM, Jikyeong was Director of the DBA Programme at Manchester Business School (MBS) in the UK from 2010 to 2014. At MBS, she also served as Director of the Postgraduate Centre and Director of MBA Programmes where she was instrumental in propelling the full-time MBA Programme’s Financial Times ranking from 47th place in 2002 to 22nd in 2007, the highest ranking the Programme has ever achieved. Whilst she was in charge of the MBA Programmes, MBS became one of the first schools in the world to earn triple accreditation from AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA.

 

Jikyeong also taught at top business schools around the world as a Visiting Professor, including IE in Madrid; the RSM in Rotterdam; ESSEC in Paris; HEC in Montreal; CEIBS in Shanghai; and Sogang Graduate School of Business in Seoul.

 

Jikyeong has been the recipient of various research grants and has delivered consultancy work for many global organizations. She has also won several national and international awards for her research and leadership roles.

 

In 2005, Jikyeong was highly commended with the Public Sector for Asian Women of Achievement Award in the UK. In 2017, she received The Asia HRD Award for Contribution to Organization, which is bestowed upon individuals who have built their success on innovative systems, processes, and practices which have impacted overall employee development and productivity with an accompanying effect on the bottomline. In 2018, Jikyeong received the Brand Laureate Best Brands’ International Brand Personality Award. In 2019, her leadership and management acumen were again acknowledged with the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award for Corporate Excellence in Education and Training, for demonstrating sustainable growth, responsible leadership, and operational excellence.

 

Most recently, Jikyeong became a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, which is the oldest management association in the world, and in being faithful to its roots, constitutes an exclusive, by-invitation-only forum of world-class global thought and business leaders committed to co-create a leadership agenda to address critical opportunities brought about by global challenges.

 

In addition to serving on the International Board of AACSB, Jikyeong is a Board member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). She is also a Council member of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS), providing opportunities for the advancement and development of business and management education in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

She is also an Independent Director of Security Bank, one of the Philippines’ leading universal banks, and of Kesoram Industries, which is part of the B K Birla Group of Companies in India. She also serves on the international advisory boards of several premier international business schools.

 

Jikyeong earned her PhD from the University of Minnesota, her M.Sc. from Colorado State University, and her bachelor’s degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

Moshe Zviran is professor of entrepreneurship and Information Technology at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University and serves as the Chief Entrepreneurship and Innovation Officer of Tel Aviv University. He is the incumbent of the Isaac Gilinsky Chair of Entrepreneurship, Technology, Innovation and Management and also serves as the Head and Academic Director of the Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, the Eli Hurvitz Institute for Strategic Management and the Coller Institute of Venture.

 

He received his B.Sc. degree in mathematics and computer science and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in information systems, all from Tel Aviv University, Israel.  Since joining Tel Aviv University in 1994, he has held numerous managerial roles throughout his career, including serving Deputy Dean of the Faculty (2007-2014), and Dean of the Coller School of Management from 2014 to 2022.”

Former members

 

• Affonso Gomez Morales
• María Helena Jaén
• Dominic Houlder
• Gary A. Giamartino