Only with Dartmouth: Innovation in Peru
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Alexis R. Abramson
Alexis R. Abramson ’93a is the 13th dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, a post she has held since 2019. At Dartmouth, she is leading an expansion of Thayer, putting human-centered engineering at the heart of engineering education, research, and practice. Prior to joining Dartmouth, she was the Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University and served as a director of the university’s Great Lakes Energy Institute.
During the Obama administration, Abramson was chief scientist and manager of the Emerging Technologies Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program. In 2018, she also served as technical advisor for Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a $1 billion effort launched by Bill Gates to combat human-driven climate change.
Aurelia Alvarado
Aurelia Alvarado currently serves as Managing Director of La Victoria Lab. She strives to co-create the future of Intercorp by working across three outcomes: leadership transformation, innovation at Intercorp’s core businesses and fostering the future capabilities needed to succeed in the future of business.
She has held position as Innovation Director, Chief Financial Officer, User Experience Director and Director of New Products and Educational Services at Innova Schools. She has been a member of the Board for IPAE and member of the Educational Consulting Committee at IPAE and currently sits in the Board of Cometa, Talent Board for Intercorp Peru as well as the Diversity and Inclusion Board for Intercorp Peru.
Previously, Aurelia spent some time living in Madre de Dios, Peru working for a non-profit focused on educational reinforcement and nutritional health for local communities in Peru’s rainforest. Prior to this, Aurelia spent four years working in port supply chain and demand planning for both retail and industrial sectors.
She also holds an Industrial Engineering Bachelor from Universidad de Lima and an MBA with a focus on Social Innovation and Public Management from Stanford University.
Sian Leah Beilock
Dr. Sian Leah Beilock began her tenure as Dartmouth’s 19th president on June 12 after six years as President of Barnard College at Columbia University.
At Barnard, Beilock raised the College’s eminence in math, science, and technology to parallel its renown in the arts and humanities. Barnard also became a leader in health and wellbeing for young people. Under her leadership, applications grew by almost a third, and financial aid grew by 50%, increasing the diversity of the student body.
Prior to her role at Barnard, Beilock spent twelve years at the University of Chicago, where she was the Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and Executive Vice Provost.
A cognitive scientist by training, Beilock studies how people and organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to professional sport teams, can perform best under stress. She is the author of two critically-acclaimed books — Choke and How the Body Knows Its Mind — and 120 peer-reviewed papers. Her 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 2.7 million times.
Alberto de Cárdenas
Alberto de Cárdenas T’04 worked for more than nine years at Opera Solutions, a strategic management consulting firm located in New York City. He came back to Lima to join Nexus Group, a leading private equity company in Peru. In that role, he was appointed Business Process Reengineering Manager of Innova Schools, a K-12 network of 63 affordable private schools targeting the emerging Peruvian middle class.
While in office, he launched the NGO Peru Champs along with friends. He became the organization’s CEO and led the organization to provide world-class education and a leadership program to underprivileged, talented (in academics, sports or the arts) kids around the country. Peru Champs has hitherto granted scholarships to more than 4,000 gifted children.
He currently works as a VP in Intercorp Management, a financial management company in Peru, although spends most of his time managing Peru Champs. He also advises ad honorem other NGOs on management and sustainability.
Before obtaining his MBA at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, he worked for almost five years in the commercial area of the Corporate Division of Interbank, Peru’s fourth largest bank. Alberto’s undergraduate degree in Economics is from Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru).
Hernan Carranza
Hernan Carranza has served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Intercorp Group since 2013. As CIO, he founded La Victoria Lab, Peru Champs, Aviva Clinics, Colectivo 23, Intercorp´s Data Office, the FEST, amongst other strategic initiatives. Hernan graduated from Universidad del Pacífico Business School and earned his MA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is currently on sabbatical exploring the world with his wife and daughters.
Claudia Cooper
Claudia Cooper is an economist by profession with many years of experience in both the public and private sectors.
She has previously served as the Minister of Economy and Finance and has been a member of various private company boards.
Currently, she is the Chairwoman of the Board of the Lima Stock Exchange and Vice President of Sustainability and External Affairs at Compañía Minera Antamina.
Carlos Gómez-Restrepo
Carlos Gómez-Restrepo is a professor of psychiatry and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He holds numerous other roles at the university: principal investigator in several national and international research projects, particularly in the field of mental health; senior researcher with the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Research Group; and president of the Ethics and Research Committee. He is also a psychiatrist at Hospital Universitario San Ignacio and is a member of the National Accreditation Council within the Columbia Ministry of Education.
Lisa D. Kenna
The Honorable Lisa D. Kenna is the Ambassador of the United States to Peru. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor. She served most recently as the Executive Secretary of the Department of State. Prior to that, Ambassador Kenna held positions as the Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State, a Political Adviser in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Director for Iraq at the National Security Council. She also served as chief of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy in Jordan, in addition to assignments in Egypt, Pakistan, and Eswatini.
Ambassador Kenna earned her B.A. at Middlebury College and a J.D. at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Before joining the government, she was an attorney in private practice. The recipient of numerous State Department Awards, Kenna speaks Arabic, Dari, Urdu and Spanish.
David Kotz
David Kotz ’86 is the provost and the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. He previously served as associate dean of the faculty for the sciences, as a core director at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, and as the executive director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies. His current research involves security and privacy in smart homes and wireless networks. He has published more than 250 refereed papers, obtained $89 million in grant funding, and mentored more than 100 research students and postdocs.
Kotz is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a 2008 Fulbright Fellow to India, a 2019 visiting professor at ETH Zürich, and an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his AB in computer science and physics from Dartmouth in 1986 and his PhD in computer science from Duke University in 1991.
Ramon Lecuona
Ramon Lecuona is an assistant professor of business administration in Tuck’s strategy group. He earned his PhD in business administration at the London Business School and a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University. Before joining Tuck, he was part of the faculty at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Prior to that, Ramon served as a staff member of the Office of the President of Mexico for more than seven years. His academic research is focused on the design of organizational structures that make firms more productive and innovative, and he has specific expertise in the field of mobile communications and the offshoring of production facilities to emerging markets. In addition to his academic work, Professor Lecuona has been part of the founding team of multiple start-ups and serves as an adviser for senior leaders of multinational companies and governmental agencies. He teaches Tuck’s core strategy course.
Lisa A. Marsch
Lisa A. Marsch is the founding director of the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), a designated “Center of Excellence” supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. She is also the director of the Northeast Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network and the Andrew G. Wallace Professor within the Departments of Psychiatry and Biomedical Data Science at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Marsch is a regular keynote speaker at national and international meetings, including invited presentations at the White House, U.S. Congress, World Bank, and Office of the Surgeon General. She has served as a consultant to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization and on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. She serves on the scientific advisory board of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise in Singapore.
Humberto Castillo Martell
Humberto Castillo Martell is a psychiatrist and director of the Mental Health Research Center of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. He has 30 years of professional practice combining public management activities, university teaching, health care activity, and scientific research in the fields of public health and mental health. He is also former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and ministerial advisor on mental health issues. Throughout his career, he has been one of the drivers of mental health reform in Peru and is DIADA project collaborator. Currently he is a visiting researcher at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain.
Miguel Murillo
Miguel Murillo T’20 is a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Boston office. During his time at BCG, Miguel has focused on developing value creation strategies for companies in the industrial goods, technology, med-tech, and finance spaces. He was also part of BCG’s core team for global CEO Advisory - working with CEOs across the technology, industrial goods, financial, retail, and hospitality sectors in both North America and Europe.
Before obtaining his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2020, he worked for almost five years in the strategy & finance team of Grupo Pana, Peru’s second largest operator of Toyota and Honda dealerships. Miguel also holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University.
Lawrence J. Mur’ray II
Lawrence J. Mur’ray II is the Executive Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. He oversees outreach, recruitment, candidate selection, and student aid efforts for the Tuck MBA. He is an active member of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the BusinessCAS Advisory Board, and the Duolingo Graduate Admissions Advisory Board. He also chairs the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Business School Advisory Board.
Colleen O’Connor
Colleen O'Connor ’19 is a business strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and an incoming MBA candidate at Harvard Business School who is passionate about making impact-driven change through the private sector. As a former Masa Son Fellow of the Schwarzman Scholars Program, her interests and experiences are international and cross-cultural with a common thread of taking a collaborative, human-centered approach to solving complex problems. She has also worked with startups and nonprofits in Japan, China, Mexico, and Peru, with additional experience living and/or conducting research in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, South Korea, Belize, and Thailand. Colleen is a proud alumna of the Dartmouth College Class of 2019, graduating salutatorian and summa cum laude, and was class marshal.
Jorge Quiroga
Jorge Quiroga is a former president of Bolivia. His public sector experience includes Leader of Opposition, 2006-present; Woodrow Wilson Scholar, 2002-2003; president of Bolivia, 2001-2002; vice president and president of Congress, 1997-2001; minister of finance, 1992; vice minister of Planning for Public Investment and International Cooperation, 1990-1992; and several consulting jobs. In the private sector, he has worked as vice president, board member, and shareholder of a large private bank in La Paz, 1993-1997; in the mining sector in Bolivia, 1989-1990; as a systems engineer with IBM in Texas, 1981-1988; as a university calculus teaching assistant, 1980-1981; and in several other roles.
He is currently active in the private sector and in many international organizations, holding positions such as: board member of Freedom House (USA), Humanitas 360 (Brazil), Library of Alexandria (Egypt), and Results for Development (R4D in USA); member of Club de Madrid with almost 100 former heads of state and government; member of Interamerican Dialogue, Foro Iberoamérica, Iniciativa Democrática de España y las Américas (IDEA), Concordia, InterAction Coun-cil, and Forum 2000-Havel; and as a member of other private boards. He has presided at FUNDE-MOS since 2002, a Bolivian public policy foundation.
His areas of expertise include: management of international aid and cooperation for developing countries; macroeconomic policy; constitutional, legal, and institutional reforms; private and official external debt restructuring and relief; programs to reduce drug trafficking and cocaine production; and Latin American public policy, trade, economics, finance and banking, integration, politics and development issues. Jorge Quiroga holds a summa cum laude BS in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from St. Edward’s University, Texas. He has four children. He is fluent in Spanish and English and has some basic Portuguese.
Kevin M. Ramos-Glew
Kevin M. Ramos-Glew GR’08 is director of enrollment planning and special assistant to the vice provost in Dartmouth Admissions. He also oversees the Bay Area and South America regions throughout the admissions cycle. Ramos-Glew has also worked with Dartmouth’s Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures for many years. Prior to Dartmouth, he was an educator and administrator at various independent secondary schools.
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor
Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor TU’88 is founder and chair of Intercorp and founder and managing partner of Nexus Group. Intercorp and Nexus Group invest primarily in Peru and the Andean Region and manage portfolio companies in financial services, retail, real estate, education, health care, leisure and entertainment, and packaging.
In 2010, Intercorp partnered with the design firm IDEO to launch Innova Schools, a system of affordable, high-quality K–12 schools in Peru. Innova has opened more than 60 schools in Peru, serving more than 50,000 students. The school system has also expanded to Mexico and Columbia.
Fortune named Intercorp in its 2015 “Change the World” list, a group of companies recognized for making important social or environmental impact. Rodríguez-Pastor was also included in Fortune’s 2017 ranking of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
Rodríguez-Pastor is co-chair of the Chairman’s International Advisory Council of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and a member of the board of trustees at the New York Public Library. He served as a member of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees and is an ex-officio member of Tuck School of Business Board of Advisors.
He graduated with a BA in social sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983 and earned an MBA from Tuck in 1988.
Percy Rueda
Percy Rueda is Director at Nexus Group and Commercial Director at Innova Schools. Before being named Commercial Director in April 2022, Percy was Innova’s CFO and was responsible for Finance, Legal, IT, Operations and Infrastructure Departments. During that time, he also led local expansion activities and the opening of new operations outside Peru.
As part of Nexus Group, he was NG Restaurant’s CFO (second largest Quick Service Restaurant Chain in Peru) and participated in several transactions including InRetail IPO and other M&A processes.
He earned an MBA from Columbia University (NYC) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico (Lima).
Matthew J. Slaughter
Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Strategy Group, and an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute.
From 2005 to 2007, Slaughter served as a member on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President. In this Senate-confirmed position he held the international portfolio, advising the president, cabinet, and many others on issues including international trade and investment, immigration, and the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. He has also been affiliated with organizations such as the Federal Reserve Board, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Congressional Budget Office, and National Academy of Sciences. His area of expertise is the economics and politics of globalization. Much of his recent work has focused on the global operations of multinational firms, labor-market impacts of globalization, and public policies to build economic opportunity.
Slaughter was a faculty member of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth from 1994 to 2002 and then joined the Tuck faculty. In 2001 he received Dartmouth’s John M. Manley Huntington Teaching Award, and in 2012 he received Tuck’s Class of 2011 Teaching Excellence Award. His MBA elective course, “Leadership in the Global Economy,” was awarded the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching Award in 2019. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1990, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.
Fernando Zavala
Fernando Zavala is currently CEO of Intercorp, a holding company for one of Peru’s largest business groups focused on Peru’s growing middle class. Intercorp’s businesses are mainly focused on four sectors: financial services; retail (including shopping malls), education and health.
In the public sector, he has been Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Peru in two occasions. In the private sector, he has served as CEO in both, Peru and Panama for the multinational SABmiller. He has also been a member of the Board of several companies in Peru, as well as business associations and NGOs.
Also, he is Vice President of the Private Council of Competitiveness, Think Tank promoted by IPAE to propose public policies.
Economist at the Universidad del Pacifico, with a master’s degree in Business Management from the University of Piura and with an MBA from the University of Birmingham in United Kingdom.
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