Future BALAS Conferences

BALAS Annual Conference 2010
The Coming Age of Regulation & Corporate Response
March 24-26
Barcelona, Spain
hosted by ESADE
Paper submission deadline: November 1st

BALAS presentation at CLADEA:

Virginia Lasio, dean of the ESPAE Graduate School of Management, organized a BALAS panel at the 2009 CLADEA meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The panelists who shared diverse views on sustainability included Juan Carlos Blum, manager of Efficacitas; Inés Manzano, director of legal and environmental area of Estudio Jurídico Manzano & Asociados; Lourdes Luque, manager of Desarrollo Económico de SNV; and Christian Bakker, director of corporate responsibility for PRONACA. Victoria Jones, executive director of BALAS and associate dean of international relations at UTSA moderated the panel. .

BALAS Executive Committee:

• President – Esteban R. Brenes
• Immediate Past-President/Nominations – Patricia Marquez, IESA
• VP of Membership and President-Elect – Esteban R. Brenes, INCAE
• Central America & Caribbean – Luis Sanz, INCAE
• Brazil – Maria Theresa Fleury, USP
• US/Canada – John Sargeant, UT Pan Am
• Northern South America - Virginia Lasio, ESPAE
• Europe - Xavier Mendoza, ESADE
• Mexico - Anabella Davila, EGADE-Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Southern South America – Alfonso Gómez Morales - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
• Treasurer – Jerry Haar, FIU
• Executive Secretary - Victoria Jones, UTSA
• 2009 Program Chair - Raúl Francisco Montalvo Corzo

BALAS Newsletters:

BALAS has started an electronic Newsletter to periodically bring to you news, events and information. If you have some items of interest please send to Victoria Jones, BALAS Executive Secretary