Rodrigo Basco

Professor of Management at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, and director of the Sheikh Saoud bin Khalid bin Khalid Al-Qassimi Chair in Family Business.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Antonio de Nebrija University and a PhD in Business Administration from the Complutense University of Madrid.

He is the author of scientific publications in the form of articles, books and book chapters. His research has been published in international academic journals, including Journal of Family Business Strategy, European Planning Studies, Family Business Review, European Management Journal, Journal of Management & Organization, Journal of Business research, Business Strategy and the Environment, Harvard Business Review and International Small Business Journal, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of several prestigious journals included in the JCR. He is also a visiting professor at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy). Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Witten Institute for Family Business at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany, a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and at CeFEO at Jonkoping University, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Valladolid (Spain).