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GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD

The advisory board will provide advice and support in the creation and development of academic programmes, as well as identifying and maintaining standards of best practice. In addition, board members will serve as ambassadors to the programmes; providing a conduit for the exchange of information and ideas between the ISAM curriculum and those most able to add value.

FLAVIO ALZUETA

President of the Advisory Board and Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of GLOBALG.A.P. – the international standard for Good Agricultural Practices. Flavio holds an MBA from IE Business School and a range of postgraduate qualifications from CEIBS (Marketing), Wharton (Leadership), and Harvard Business School (Agribusiness).

HITENDRA PATEL

Thought leader, keynote speaker, author, and innovator. CEO of IXL Center – a Cambridge-based global innovation consulting firm. Hitendra has helped over 1,200 global companies and their executive teams drive transformation initiatives to build innovation capabilities and achieve 10-fold increases in growth. Previously a senior leader of Monitor Group and Arthur D Little’s Innovation Practice, Hitendra began his career as a technologist for Motorola. He is the owner of six patents and the founder of several venture-backed companies.

DR. SANTIAGO GARCÍA

Dr. Garcia holds a PhD from Leeds University Business School and is currently Dean of the Global School at Rennes School of Business. Dr. Garcia serves as an international accreditation assessor and is a regular speaker at conferences and on panels addressing international higher education issues, where he provides unique expertise and insight on quality, internationalisation of operations, global partnerships, and digitalisation.

DR. FAISAL AL-KADI

Dr. Faisal is an entrepreneur who is committed to turning exciting ideas into successful businesses. Founder and Managing director of Faiour Enterprises, a platform for new ventures.Advisory Board Member at ISCEA -International Supply Chain Education and professor. MBA and Doctorate from IE Business School. His areas of expertise are Entrepreneurship, Culture, Family Business, National Economic Policies, Strategy.

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Leader of various teams focused on the impact of the development and search for safer food for consumers, through the Global Food Safety Advisory Program of the International Finance Corporation. She has more than 20 years of experience in international development within a wide variety of global work environments, with proven skills ranging from financial and technical to communication and teamwork.

SANJAY SETHI

Mr. Sanjay Sethi has been a Sustainability and Impact investment leader for three decades, developing and managing integrated supply chains, food and agribusiness projects, large commercial farms and a range of agricultural infrastructure. As Director of Sustainability at Phoenix Group –a $2.5 billion multinational – he is leading the transformation of the agrifood commodities business towards a more sustainable future.

Mr. Sethi was awarded; The Africa Food Prize in 2013, a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for his work on Food Security, and; the Chief Sustainability Officer of the Year Award in 2018 and 2019. He is member of the Steering Committee for the Global Agribusiness Alliance (a World Business Council for Sustainable Development initiative) and has been re-elected to the Board of Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP), an initiative of the UNEP. Mr. Sethi graduated from Yale School of Business (USA), the Institute of Rural Management (India), and CCS Haryana Agricultural University (India).

MARY SHELMAN

Thought Leader in Global Food and Agribusiness. As well as an MBA from Harvard Business School, <Name> also served for ten years as Director of the Harvard Agribusiness Program. Member of the Crop Improvement Advisory Council (AgroTech), and former President of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA).

DANNY GOH

Founder and CEO of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI research firm that integrates artificial intelligence into organizational processes by using NLP to transform inactive information into structured data; facilitating faster, better, and more agile functioning. Danny is also co-author of Amazon’s sales success, The AI Republic: Building the Nexus Between Humans and Intelligent Automation. He currently serves as an entrepreneurial expert at the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, and is a designated member of the Center for Politics and Competitiveness at the École des Ponts Business School.