Make changes in INTEC organisms

SANTO DOMINGO. The economist Venezuelan Armando Barrios se Incorporates al Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) as Director of the Leadership Project for Coalitions and Governance, a new academic space assigned to the Academic Vice-rectory that pursues the technical development of collaborative leadership capacities in political actors, as well as in the public, social and business sectors.

This initiative of the academy, which seeks to contribute ideas to improve leadership in the country, has the auspices of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development and the World Bank. 

Professor Barrios coordinate the Center for Governance and Social Management (CEGES), and it happens in those functions to the teacher Rafael Toribio, former INTEC, who will coordinate the DIA Seminar (INTEC Dialogue for Action), an initiative of the rectory aimed at analyzing and proposing solutions to issues of national interest, which will begin to work soon. The CEGES will expand its portfolio of services to include research, consultancies and consultancies in municipal matters.

Barrios holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a master's degree in Applied Economics from American University, Washington, United States. He is an economist, graduated from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). During 20 years of teaching experience in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, he has taught courses in Strategic Management, Management Decisions, Corporate Governance, and Marketing Strategies and Microeconomics. He has combined teaching with research and academic publications. In addition, he has been dean, director of graduate and undergraduate programs at the business schools of IESA Venezuela, Sergio Arboleda University and Konrad Lorenz University, Colombia.