Maria Tereza Fleury is a full professor of International Management at both Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and the University of São Paulo (USP) and President-Elect of the Academy of International Business. She was dean of the School of Business Administration (2008 -2015) and the Director of FGV, a Brazilian think-tank. Previously at the University of Sao Paulo, she was the Director of the School of Economy, Administration, and Accountancy – USP. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Manufacturing at Cambridge University, UK at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, Institute for Development Economics, Japan, and Visiting Professor at ESSEC – France.
Professor Fleury has served as Vice President of AIB, Director of BALAS – the Business Association of Latin American Studies, and ANPAD – the Brazilian Association for Graduate Studies and Research in Management. She organized the 2010 AIB Annual Conference at Rio de Janeiro. She served as editor of Revista de Administração USP, and she is a member of the editorial board of international and Brazilian journals.
She is a member of the board of Academic and Professional Associations like IE, Madrid, Lisbon Business School, Lisboa, the Center for China-Latin America Management Studies of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Columbia Global Centers Latin America of Columbia University, New York.
She has published 25 books and more than 100 articles on Strategy and Competency Management, International Strategy and Management, Human Resources Management. In the last 15 years, her primary research and publication focus has been on emerging country multinationals, comparing different countries and regions.
Last Updated: October 2021