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Adriana Maldonado Jiménez, MBA, MSc

Adriana Maldonado Jiménez, MBA, MSc

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Adriana Maldonado Jiménez holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from UNAM and a Master’s degree in International Trade and Finance from Lancaster University (United Kingdom), awarded through the Chevening Scholarship. She further complemented her profile with an MBA and a Master’s degree in Innovation for Business Development from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her career combines a solid foundation in foreign trade and international financial services with a transition toward innovation, strategic planning, and regional development.

Within international banking, she developed and led high-impact initiatives, including the design, negotiation, implementation, and commercial positioning of global products such as the “Letter of Credit with Provision of Funds.” Her experience also includes professional work in London and various executive roles in international business. At ITESM Campus León, she served as a professor of international business, coordinator of diploma and continuing education programs, and as a member of the strategic projects team. She also championed high-impact skills development programs and initiatives focused on gender equity. In parallel, she has facilitated processes with public and private institutions regarding transparency, competitiveness, and the strengthening of MSMEs (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises).

She is a founding partner of Gnosis XXI, where she acts as a consultant and facilitator for projects in planning, entrepreneurship, innovation, and regional development. Since 2020, she has taken on leadership responsibilities in innovation and value creation, as well as in gender equity. Her work is grounded in values of transparency, inclusion, and resilience, supported by competencies in design thinking, negotiation, mentoring, and open government. She maintains active participation in networks such as Chevening Alumni México, IMEF, and AMEXME, and serves as a global mentor for entrepreneurship and innovation programs in Guanajuato.

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Articles by this author

Why is it so important to recover city centres?

23 February 2024
Regional development

The UN global agenda considers SDG 11 (goal 4) with priority in cities and cultural heritage and the relevance of historic city centres as a tool for urban and sutainable develpment. Historic city centres will contribute to significantly reduce inequity, segregation, environmental deterioration and to rebuild social structure giving more human identity to the urban […]

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Why is it important to understand public policy?

16 February 2024
Leadership

We are in election year and we will see proposals, fights and uncertainty. Citizens have more active participation to know deeply what politicians do in the Congreso de la Unión, an emblematic space for decision making that impacts the life of all mexicans. It does not matter what you really do under day to day […]

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GENDER EQUALITY: DISMANTLING THE GLASS CEILING! TALK TO YOUNG WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA. BRITISH COUNCIL ALUMNI UK

15 December 2023
Knowledge, Leadership

Different cultures, histories and stereotypes and how these factors can continue to impact gender inequality and the role of conscious and unconscious bias   The governments of Latin America and the Caribbean identified four structural obstacles of gender inequality in the region (Data from the 2030 Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean In the […]

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Women DON´T look pritier if they Shut up! (Part II)

Women DON´T look pritier if they Shut up! (Part II)

29 November 2023
Knowledge

Nowadays it is so common to hear within the business sector that they are working on gender issues, without saying anything specificly. However, a different reality begins with word expression. When a business woman express her ideas, criticism by men within close envorinment can not wait. If the word expression is related to woman´s business […]

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