International Summer Program
An innovative program that combines lectures with visiting professors, relevant visits to local companies, and recreational and cultural experiences in a multidisciplinary environment.
- From July 15th to July 26th, 2024
Registration period: January 15th, 2024 – June 21st, 2024
You will have the opportunity to enroll in any of the following online courses:
In person
- roject Management
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Sustainability and Competitiveness
- Business Intelligence
- International Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- International Market Analysis
- International Trade:
- Focusing on the North American Region
- Negotiation Strategies & Conflict Resolution
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Management
Online classes
- Cross Cultural Management
- Sustainability and Competitiveness
- Leadership and Innovation
- International Trade:
- Focusing on the North American Region
Why should I be part of this program?
› Classes with highly qualified professors from different parts of the world.
› Classmates from different continents and cultures in a multidisciplinary environment.
› The ease of completing a full course in a short time and a dynamic learning environment.
› Real-world experiences within the most important companies in the city.
› Acquire multicultural skills and an enhanced global vision that will impact your professional training.
› Educational activities coupled with authentic and fun recreational opportunities.
› A personalized learning environment.
› The opportunity to practice a language different from yours.
› CETYS students may use this program to complete their International Experience requirement.
INTERNATIONAL FACULTY PRESENT IN PREVIOUS ISP EDITIONS
Degrees:
- Ph.D. Business Management, ABD, Arizona State University (2010)
- M.B.A. Business Management, University of Alabama (2004)
- B.A. English & Mathematics, Brandeis University (2001)
Academic Positions:
- Northern Arizona University, Business & Administration, Assistant Clinical Professor (August 2013-Present).
- University of Wyoming, Management & Marketing, Assistant Professor (August 2010-May 2013)
Honors:
- NAU-Yuma Teacher of the Year, NAU (2015)
Other:
- Baylor Undergraduate Negotiation Competition Coach/Advisor
- Phi Beta Lambda, Adviser
- Certified Mediator, Interaction Management Associates (2009)
Italian and Swiss citizen, studied in Cambridge, England, and doctoral degree from Perugia University, Italy. She lived and worked in Europe, USA, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal and China.
She has over 20 years of business experience at executive level for an American multinational company (Dow Chemical).
Since 2000 she has been teaching at the Polytechnic in Paris, in Berlin (HTW) and in Beijing, China. She is also teaching at 对外经济贸易大学 (UIBE) Beijing at their joint MBA program with City University of Seattle, USA.
Since 2011 she is Distinguished Chair in Strategic management and China Director at CETYS University, Mexico. Since 2015 she is Guest Professor at 西北工业大学 (Northwestern Polytechnic University) Xi’an, China.
Alex Steenstra earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah. He is a Professor of Finance & Economics for Northern Arizona University in Yuma and currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Business and Administration. In addition, he is the Director of the Master of Global Business Administration program and has served as the assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs in Yuma. He has over 20 years of experience in business and economic development.
Dr. Steenstra has international teaching and working experience. He has taught in New Zealand, Mexico, and the USA. His research, publications, and teaching include economic development, regional economic development in the Southwest border region, and the economic value of water rights. He has presented his research in the USA, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia.
His experience in the private and public sector includes serving as the CEO of his consulting firm in the Netherlands, and as an accountant, controller, and CFO for several firms in the USA. In the public sector, he was a Senior Economist and Program Manager for Waikato Regional government in New Zealand.
Dr. Steenstra has served on the board of the International Boundary and Water Commission US Section, Colorado River Citizens Forum, Visit Yuma, and is a member of Imperial Valley Mexicali Binational Alliance.
Dr. Geoffrey Dick currently teaches at St John’s University in New York City. First appointed full Professor of Information Systems in 2009, he has taught in a number of universities in the United States and around the world. He has a particular interest in online education and its future, including how it might be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Geoff has taught and researched Information Systems for over 30 years. His research (around 100 publications) is mainly in the areas of telecommuting (his PhD) and on-line education – he is the recipient of the ICIS prize for best paper in education and was awarded the 2009 Emerald Management Review Citation of Excellence for one of the best papers published worldwide in the top 400 business journals. Recent publications have been in the CAIS, JITCAR, JISE and JITE-R. He has been a visiting fellow at UC Davis, the University of Malaya, the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, University of Agder in Norway and has taught in the prestigious programs of the ESAN Summer School in Lima, Peru, the CETYS International Summer Program in Ensenada (where he holds a Foreign Professor appointment) and at ITAM in Mexico City.
Anna Opalka is the Head of the External Relations Department, University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Poland. The Administrative Director of the Research and Development Centre of Renovation and Conservation, Institutional Erasmus Plus Programme Coordinator, Coordinator of the EuroIndia Centre at UAS Nysa, trainer and lecturer.
Graduated on Master Economics at the University of Economics in Cracow, Poland in 2004, completed the Postgraduates Studies in Management at the Wrocław University with the diploma in 2012.
Actually, scientific area focuses on the higher education institutions internationalisation and international projects management, also in the area of conservation and cultural heritage protection management.
She was part of the PR & Marketing Agency Retro former staff in 1996-1998. Staff member of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice in period: 1998-2004.
In period: 2016-2018- a member of the ELIA ( European Ligue of Institutes of Art Executive Group), as a consultant and decision maker in terms of art education trends and challenges in Europe.
In 2013 certified as the Quality Systems Auditor and involved in the quality assurance processes planning and implementation within the University of Applied Sciences in Nysa. Nominated as one of the fours best International Coordinators in Poland as EDUINSPIRATOR in 2016 (among all the universities in Poland).
PhDr. Monika Hřebačková leads language, intercultural and social competence courses for BSc and MSc students at School of Business of the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, the Czech Republic.
Her area of expertise includes Intercultural Communication Competence, Business English, Negotiation and Conflict resolution, and Behavior Competence Development. As a guest lecturer, she has carried out workshops and seminars at the University of Tampere, Finland, Budapest Business School, Hungary, and she taught in the CETYS Summer Programme in Mexico in 2018.
She is an experienced project coordinator – with her team, she won the award “2018 best international Erasmus+ project in higher education”.
She publishes on the topics of innovative teaching and learning.
Dr. Azly Rahman was an International Summer2019 faculty/instructor for CETYS, where he taught the course Cross Cultural Management with Professor Francisco Velez-Torres. Professor Rahman also teaches Psychology Economics, and World History in a college-prep academy in New Jersey, USA. He is also an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he teaches amongst others, course in Global Issues and Cross-Cultural Perspectives.
He was born in Singapore (part of British Malaya then) and grew up in a village in Johor Baru, Malaysia and holds a Columbia University (New York City) doctorate in International Education Development and Masters degrees in six areas. He has edited and authored eight books.
Dr. Rahman is also an international columnist for three major academic online forums: Politurco (New Jersey, USA), Malaysiakini (Malaysia) and Eurasia Review (Oregon USA). In his 15 years of writing for these forums, he has written over 400 articles on wide-ranging topics: Politics, Philosophy, Culture, Education, and Global Issues.
He is currently working on a memoir, a novel, a collection of 300 poems, and a book on Gifted and Talented Education in Malaysia, honoring a prominent Malaysian educator. He is looking forward to meeting his students online at the 2020 CETYS International Summer program and hopes to one day soon to come back to beautiful and gorgeous City of Ensenada to teach again at the beautiful campus of CETYS!
Dr. Ioannis PAPPAS, CEO & Co-Founder of GREEN EVOLUTION SA, is Director for Mediterranean Region of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC).
He is a Mechanical Engineer, with PhD in Applied Mechanics, with over 29 years experience in several fields of science, focusing in Sustainability for Tourism, Energy and Environmental Efficiency in Infrastructure and Buildings, Advising in standardization of companies and technological implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation methodologies.
He is Lead GSTC Assessor for Destinations, Auditor / Assessor for Sustainable Tourism Certification Standards, focusing in Hotels, Tour Operators and Destinations, and Lead Trainer for GSTC in South East Europe Region.
Finally, he is the head expert of GSTC team on the Collaboration Contract between GSTC & the Greek Ministry of Tourism on the implementation of Sustainability into the new National Tourism Strategy.
He holds a MBA (General Management), as well as an Advanced Training in General Management, ASCI-Hyderabad. He took part in a Strategic Management Module at the Indian Institute Of Management (IIM)-Kozhikode.
He has more than 37 years of professional experience. 28 years at senior management Level.
He has worked in Tata Motors Ltd- Passenger Car Unit as a General Manager for Quality & Process, he was a Plant Director& Vice President for Whirl pool of India ( GNF-refrigerator Plant Pune and the General Manager- Operations in Bajaj Auto Ltd – Pune.
He is an Associate Professor( 16years) in ASM Group of Institutes, Pune, also a visiting Faculty for MBA- CETYS University – Mexico since May 2011, including CETYS ISP 2015 and 2017.
Prof. Pablo Collazzo, PhD has an extensive professional and academic experience at the interplay of sustainability, finance and strategy. He is Managing Partner of Sequoia, a global advisory firm focusing on valuation & private equity, strategic CSR and value-based health care, while active in academia, as Professor and Senior Researcher at Danube University Krems, and Affiliate Faculty and Council Chair of the MOC Network at Harvard Business School.
A former Rector of Universidad del Pacífico in Ecuador, he was the Academic Director of the European Academy of Business in Society in Brussels, after an international career in investment banking (Merrill Lynch) and consulting (PwC). He serves as board member to profit and non-profit organizations, and is Senior Advisor on Sustainable Competitiveness to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
He is a lawyer and teacher with more than 8 years of experience in practicing law and more than three years of dedication to the academy, through teaching and consultancy in various subjects for national and international companies and two universities.
Passionate about law and the search for the application of norms as a means to achieve true justice.
In previous editions we had...
› Participating professors and students from Armenia, Austria, Colombia, the United States, India, Peru, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, Mexico, and more.
› Discussions on subjects such as International Marketing, Business Intelligence, Cross-cultural Behavior, Innovation and Development of New Products, Competitiveness and Sustainability, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Project Management.
› Visits to relevant companies in the tourism, aerospace, maritime, and maquiladora industries, among others.
› Recreational and cultural activities such as, visiting La Bufadora, the second largest marine geyser in the world, a Chocolate Workshop, tours to the top wineries in the country, motorcycle, and zip line trips, and a traditional Mexican dinner.
