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Fernandez, Juan A.

 
 
Professor of Management, CEIBS
 
Nationality: Spain
 
86-21-28905129
fjuan@ceibs.edu
 
 
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
 
*1997 Ph.D. in Business Administration, I.E.S.E., UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
 
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 

*Managing Multinationals in China : CEOs experience
*Chinese State Enterprises: adaptation to the market economy
*Foreign Entrepreneurs in China
*Chinese CEOs

 
TEACHING INTERESTS
 

*Challenges of Doing Business in China
*Cross cultural management
* Leading Change 
*Strategy Business Simulations
*Team Work
*Leadership

 
SHORT BIO
 

Juan Antonio Fernandez is Professor of Management at CEIBS, Shanghai, China. He served as the Director of the Diploma in Management Program at CEIBS from 2000 to 2002 and Director of the Center of Entrepreneurship from 2002 to 2005. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School (USA) in the spring of year 2003 and at the University of Lancaster (UK) since 2006.

Before joining CEIBS, he was professor at the School of International Business (ESCI) in Barcelona, Spain. He has taught at the Korean Development Institute (Korea), Asian Pacific University (Japan), IESE (Spain), John Cabot University (Italy), EADA (Spain), and The Mongolian Technical University (Mongolia).

From 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the faculty of the Management Development Program at the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. His prior experience includes serving as the CFO and member of the board of directors of Anfi del Mar S.A., Norway, advisor to the Ministry of Commerce of the Government of the Canary Islands, and Financial Analyst for the Industrial Spanish Bank, Spain. He was also the Assistant to the Commercial Attache of the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela.

Prof. Fernandez received his Ph D and MBA degrees from IESE, Spain. He received a Diploma in Economics from The Economic Institute, University of Colorado, USA.  His work has been published in Harvard Business Review (Spain), Business Week-China, Organizational Dynamics, Business Strategy Review, Asian Case Research Journal, and the Barcelona Management Review. He has contributed to the following books: Employment and Manager's Career and State-Owned Enterprise Reform: Chinese Practice & Spanish Experience. He is the author and co-author of a number of teaching cases. He has written four books CHINA CEO: Voices of Experience, Chinese SOEs Reform: CEO and Industry Perspective, China CEO: A Field Guide and China Entrepreneur. A fifth is in preparation on Chinese CEOs.

His current research is in the following areas: Managing Multinationals in China: CEOs experience; Chinese State Enterprises: adaptation to the market economy; Foreign Entrepreneurs in China; and Chinese Entrepreneurs.

He has given presentations about his Chinese research in India, Japan, Korea, UK, France, Italy and Spain. He also receives at CEIBS numerous groups from all over the world from Latin America, South Africa, USA and other countries.

 
 
   
 

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