Shajira Nazir Adams is elected Academic Vice-Rector of INTEC
SANTO DOMINGO. The Board of Regents of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) selected teacher Shajira Nazir Adams as Academic Vice-Rector of the university for the period 2026-2029.
Nazir Adams holds a Bachelor's degree in International Management, Economics, and Political Science from Manhattanville College (United States). She has an Executive MBA from BARNA Management School, specializing in leadership, strategy, and decision-making in complex contexts, as well as a specialization in Corporate Finance from the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM). She also holds a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom), where she was a Chevening Scholar, and a fellow of the Japanese government's INDEX program, which focuses on developing leaders with an international perspective.
Additionally, she holds a specialization in Computer Science and Data Analytics from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, focused on the strategic use of data, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies applied to organizational management and decision-making. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Social Sciences at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, with research interests in public policy, institutional development, and higher education.
“The selection of the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs is of strategic importance to INTEC, in a context where higher education faces new challenges related to innovation, quality, digital transformation, the relevance of educational offerings, and strengthening ties with society. This position demands a solid academic vision, institutional leadership, and management skills to advance our university's priorities,” stated INTEC Rector Arturo del Villar.
The Office of the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs is responsible for guiding the evolution of the institutional educational model, ensuring its internal coherence, its alignment with university governance decisions, and its compliance with international standards of quality and academic performance. From this position, academic policies, curricular innovation processes, faculty development, and quality assurance are coordinated to offer a rigorous, relevant, and student-centered educational experience, in accordance with INTEC's mission and values.
According to the provisions of the Regulations for the Selection and Appointment of the Rector and Vice-RectorsFor the selection of the position of Academic Vice-Rector, a shortlist of candidates was formulated, which was considered by the Academic Council and subsequently submitted to the Board of Regents for decision-making, through the Rector's Office.
The Board of Regents is the highest governing body of INTEC and the legal administrator of its assets. It is made up of 15 members, who include the rector and who are prominent people in Dominican society who perform functions voluntarily and honorably. By statutory mandate, the majority of its members are university graduates.
Teaching, managerial and public policy experience
Shajira Nazir Adams has a solid academic, managerial and public policy background, which articulates university teaching, institutional management and policy formulation in national and international contexts.
She has served as Academic Director of the Bachelor in Business Administration program at BARNA Management School, as well as director and thesis committee member for the Master's in Senior Financial Management and the Master's in Risk Management at PUCMM. She has taught courses in the Global Business Economic Environment, Economic Thought, World History and Business Evolution, and Business Analysis and Decision Making at BARNA Management School, Finance Seminars at PUCMM, Economics, Finance and Executive Coaching, and has been the director/resident professor of the glocal pillar at BARNA Management School.
In the professional field, she has held positions of high responsibility in the public and private sectors, including: Manager of Economic Studies in the Risk Management and Credit Control of Banco BHD; Director of Planning of the National Directorate of National Assets; Director of Investments and Competitive Intelligence of the Ministry of Energy and Mines; Minister Counselor of the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Argentina; Economic Consultant of the General Directorate of Public Credit and Coordinator of Evaluation and Research of the National Observatory of Information and Communication Technologies (ONTIC-RD), among other positions in the public and private sectors.
This trajectory has allowed him to develop a comprehensive vision of higher education, understood as a system where academic excellence, institutional management, social relevance, internationalization and the strategic use of data and technology converge, pillars that will mark his management at the head of the Academic Vice-Rectorate of INTEC.