Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez (PhD) is a Full Professor of Management at Universidad EAFIT, Colombia. She was the Vice-President of Administration at the Academy of Inter-national Business (AIB) (2015-2018) and the regional chapter chair for Latin America and the Caribbean (AIB-LAC) (2018-2021); Member of the global council of the Sustainable Development Goal number 1 (SDG 1: End Poverty) of the World Government Summit (WGS) (2018-2020), and coordinator of the Colombian universities in the virtual institute of the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2009-2019).