Professor Camelia Ilie Cardoza is a leader with more than 30 years of experience in strategy, innovation and financial management in organizations in Europe, Latin America and the United States of America. Before her appointment as president of INCAE Business School, a leading business school in Latin America, she was dean of Strategy and Institutional Affairs, dean of Executive Education and Strategic Innovation, chair of the Leadership Center and full-time professor at INCAE. During the last decade, INCAE's Executive Education area has been positioned in the Top 25 of the Financial Times world ranking. Likewise, in alliance with Emeritus, she created INCAE Online, an online education start-up. Over 6,500 participants from 15 countries attend the programs under her leadership each year.

As a professor of Corporate Governance, she leads programs that help presidents, CEOs, and board members improve their governance systems and manage digital transformation and innovation. She has also taught programs and advised multinational corporations such as Banco Santander, PWC, Inter-American Development Bank, Bankinter, Telefónica, Iberia, Maersk and Copa Airlines.

She was trained as an engineer and obtained a doctorate in business administration at the University of Comillas. She has worked at IE Business School and ESADE Business School in Spain. She was a research fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and regularly writes in the column "Perspectives in time of change" in the Harvard Review for Latin America. Dr. Ilie researches corporate governance, higher education, business school models, MBA programs, female entrepreneurship, and leadership. She was recognized as one of the 12 most influential women in business education by BlueSky Thinking. She received the Woman of the Decade award in Education and Leadership in Latin America from the Women's Economic Forum and is listed by Forbes magazine as the 100 most powerful women in Central America and the Caribbean.