Alfons Sauquet Rovira

Alfons Sauquet has served as Director of the Combined Undergraduate and Master in Business Administration at ESADE.

He has been a lecturer at HEC Paris, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and Wharton School of Business, in addition to being Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the Copenhagen Business School. He is a lecturer at the Summer School organized by the European Doctoral Association for Management in Business Administration (EDAMBA).

He has been CEMS Chairman of the Interfaculty Group in Organizational Behaviour.

He has directed research projects funded by the European Commission on Learning in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in four European countries. The ESADE partners in this project are Università Luigi Bocconi (Milan), Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna) and the Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen).

He is the principal researcher on the Learning and Knowledge in Organizations Research Group (GRACO).

Ministry of Education and Science Adviser on Educational Quality programmes and for the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

He has been a consultant to various national and international organizations on learning, organizational culture and change. At present, he is a member of the Academic Council of the Association for Human Resources Management in International Organizations (AHRMIO). He has been invited by UNESCO and is a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme.

Education

• Doctor of Education. Columbia University
• Master of Arts. Columbia University
• Máster en Dirección y Administración de Empresas. ESADE
• Licenciado en Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación (Sección: Psicología). Universitat de Barcelona

Areas of interest

• Knowledge management
• Learning in organizations
• Practice and knowledge
• Social networks
• Culture as a shaping context
• Team learning