Professor
Gabriel A. Ramirez
 Gabriel
A. Ramírez,
MSc., Ph.D.
is a Professional with a wide range of skills in
management and consultancy in companies,
governments and international organizations. He
has a strong systems background, and is a
specialist in organizational change and
knowledge Management. He also has experience in
strategic planning and human resources. Gabriel
has Research and teaching practice at graduate
levels, including executive development in
several countries, and is bilingual in English
and Spanish.
Currently Gabriel
is Managing Director of AIM Ltd., an
international network of management
professionals. He was a full time consultant to
the Managing and Marketing Directors of Chile’s
Post Office in corporate strategies, organized
its marketing intelligence unit and had
assignments on business strategies, customer
satisfaction, and designed a new business. He
was also a consultant to VITROTEC, the R&D
Company of the Vitro Group in Mexico, to
establish procedures and information systems for
corporate technology management. Also in Mexico,
project director on organizational effectiveness
and reengineering, including the introduction of
performance appraisal systems for managerial and
technical staff. Since 1999 he is in the panel
of international experts that produces “The
World Competitiveness Yearbook”.
As an
expert of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
he directed projects to modernize the Office of
International Cooperation and to introduce ICT
to the legislative, judicial and executive
branches of Uruguay. For the Postal Union of the
Americas, Spain and Portugal, he organized its
technical cooperation functions, and designed
strategic plans for the Post Offices of Chile
and Ecuador. With the International Labor
Organization (ILO), he designed systems to
assess and assessed the effectiveness of
projects in education for work in Honduras and
Costa Rica.
Gabriel is a former Director of the Graduated
Programme in Business Administration at the
Central University of Chile; Editor of the
“Knowledge & Society” review and member of the
Board of the “Iberoamerican Community of
Knowledge Systems. He
Conducts research on societal learning,
innovation and the transition to the Knowledge
Society. In the summer of 2005 visiting
professor on Knowledge Based Development at the
Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and
invited speaker to the International Week on
Knowledge Management by the University of Caxias
do Sul in Brazil and Universidad del Norte de
Colombia in 2006.
In
Mexico, he was Director of Planning at the
University of the Americas in Puebla, and
visiting professor on information systems and
international competitiveness at the Instituto
Tecnológico de Monterrey. Taught Management
Information Systems at the Universities of the
Sacred Heart, in Puerto Rico and Dámaso
Larrañaga of Uruguay. He also taught in the
Master in Information and Computing Systems at
the joint programme of the ORT and Oxford
Universities, in Montevideo.
He has delivered
seminars to high-level executives in companies
such as Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and BANAMEX
in Mexico, and CODELCO Chile; and conducted
workshops on strategic planning and
globalization for the Postal Union of the
Américas, Spain and Portugal (UPAEP), in
Uruguay.
Gabriel
holds an MSc in Systems Analysis and Ph.D. in
Management,
Aston University, UK. He also holds a License
in Management: University of Chile and a
Title in Accountancy: University of Chile
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