WAAD World Congress Guest Speaker
June 8 – 11, 2017
Dr. Carlos Tasso Eira De Aquino is an accomplished senior executive and professor combining a Ph.D. and two Post-Docs with over 25 years of experience in leading and contributing to scholarship in Business, Education, IT, and Engineering. Along with his career, Dr. Aquino accumulated achievements and recognition as Provost, Dean of Business, Dean of Accreditation, in institutions in the USA and abroad, with student and faculty bodies that encompassed a clear diversity of cultures.
n his career, he has been strategically building and leading diverse teams to solve complex, systemic problems, besides managing, teaching, developing and supervising relevant research. He has an extensive experience in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and is adept at developing and implementing academic programs, accreditation processes, operational, regulatory and quality procedures and policies, and corporate training programs that foster measurable performance improvements. He is an international accreditation evaluator for ACBSP, having participated in site visits, including one in Lima, Peru, in October 2016 and another in Colombia in March 2017.
Dr. Aquino is a multi-lingual professional (English, Portuguese, Spanish), and his educational background includes a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and a M.Sc. in Structural Engineering (The George Washington University), a Ph.D. in Sciences and Nuclear Technology (University of São Paulo, Brazil), and two post-doctoral degrees – Mechanical Engineering, and Entrepreneurship (State University of Campinas, Brazil). Before moving to the United States in 2008, Dr. Aquino was responsible for the Brazilian version of many business books, published by Pearson Education, Cengage Learning and McGraw-Hill. Dr. Aquino had also authored a book on Adult Higher Education (How to Learn: Andragogy and Learning Skills) for Pearson Education in Brazil in 2008.
Since 2014 he has created, launched, and led centers of excellence dedicated to Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace, developing programs and solutions in the various dimensions of Diversity and Inclusion, with a substantial focus on companies and organizations that embrace or are willing to launch diversity and inclusion strategies and professional development among internal and external stakeholders. He has been a member of the editorial board for one international peer-reviewed journal on Management since 2016 and had 17 papers approved for presentation in venues such as Western Academy of Management, ACBSP, and GUIDE (Global Universities in Distance Education) Conferences in the past two years. He also had thirteen articles published in the same period in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has just authored chapters and edited the book Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace: Aligning Initiatives with Strategic Business Goals for Springer-Palgrave McMillan. Dr. Aquino can be reached via carlos.tasso@outlook.com