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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

Creative Economy (Part III)

Creative Economy (Part III)

2 April 2023
Business environment, Global environment, Innovation

UNESCO created in 2004 Creative Cities Network to promote the cooperation within the cities that settle creativity as strategic sustainable urban development and to strengthen cultural and creative industries in the development local plan. (UNESCO, 2022).   The commitment of each city is to share the best practices, with the association of public-private sector and […]

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Creative Economy (Part II)

Creative Economy (Part II)

1 April 2023
Business environment, Global environment, Innovation

Creative economy has a mixture of creative industries and cultural industries within the intersection of arts, culture, commerce and technology with the opportunity of being a tool to recover identity and social recomposition in spaces that have strong identity meaning for citizens. In addition, economic recovery can take place through new brand products and services […]

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Creative Industries (Part I)

Creative Industries (Part I)

29 March 2023
Business environment, Global environment, Innovation

Creative Inustries is the economics of ideas and knowledge. This concept integrate cultural  industries and knowledge economy as a result of the increasing demand of recreative or enterteinment services and cudltural services, all in one. (Felipe Buitrago, 2013) As a context, UNESCO, the UN Organization with the commitment of Culture, declared 2021 as the International […]

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My Eternal Gratitude!

My Eternal Gratitude!

19 September 2022
Global environment, Knowledge, Leadership

Just a few months ago we celebrated HRM Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee…. Now she is not with us anymore! Today an important era in the world history and UK is closed with the dead of the most powerful and visionary leader of the last 70 years, who leaves a legacy  IN ME  since I was […]

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Where is your business: Transformation or evolution?

18 April 2022
Global environment, Innovation, Women in the engineering

My dear friend Selene Diez, Forte Innovation Consulting CEO, has stated in her article “Transformation or Digital Evolution” important issues that have evolved during the pandemic lock down: our future in the digital world. (Full article at the end of this writing). During the lock down, we had to transform our companies without any question…there […]

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