Introduction
Dr Fornes is Senior Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) and former Dean of the Graduate School & Executive Education at ESIC Business & Marketing School (Spain). He completed his Post-Doctoral Studies at IE Business School (Spain) after receiving a PhD in Management from the University of Bath (UK) and is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He also holds an MBA degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile) with a period of studies at University of Southern California (USA), and a First Degree in Business from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Dr Fornes started his professional career at the Citibank in 1993 and then funded what became a mid-sized company with operations in Chile and Argentina. Since 2005 he has combined academic and executive responsibilities. Also in 2005 he started to be professionally involved with China where in 2010, for his work with SMEs, he received the Liupan Mountain Friendship Award from the Ningxia Government for his “contribution to Ningxia’s economy and society”, and then in 2014 he received the Foreign Expert Award from the Shanghai Government. Dr Fornes has published widely on management in emerging countries, including one of the first books on foreign exchange exposure in these markets and two on the economic and business relations between China and Latin America, for the latter he was awarded the London School of Economics – Latin American Development Bank Fellowship in 2015. His research has been featured in mass media like CGTN, Fortune, the BBC, El Pais or Cinco Dias, and in reputable academic publications like Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal of Business Research, etc.
Expert
Dr Fornes is Senior Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) and former Dean of the Graduate School & Executive Education at ESIC Business & Marketing School (Spain). He completed his Post-Doctoral Studies at IE Business School (Spain) after receiving a PhD in Management from the University of Bath (UK) and is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He also holds an MBA degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile) with a period of studies at University of Southern California (USA), and a First Degree in Business from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Dr Fornes started his professional career at the Citibank in 1993 and then funded what became a mid-sized company with operations in Chile and Argentina. Since 2005 he has combined academic and executive responsibilities. Also in 2005 he started to be professionally involved with China where in 2010, for his work with SMEs, he received the Liupan Mountain Friendship Award from the Ningxia Government for his “contribution to Ningxia’s economy and society”, and then in 2014 he received the Foreign Expert Award from the Shanghai Government. Dr Fornes has published widely on management in emerging countries, including one of the first books on foreign exchange exposure in these markets and two on the economic and business relations between China and Latin America, for the latter he was awarded the London School of Economics – Latin American Development Bank Fellowship in 2015. His research has been featured in mass media like CGTN, Fortune, the BBC, El Pais or Cinco Dias, and in reputable academic publications like Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal of Business Research, etc.
Fields of expertise: e-Transformation / e-Governance, Education
