Gonzalo Jiménez

Harvard DRCLAS Luksic Visiting Scholars

CEO, PROTEUS Management & Governance and Professor of Corporate Governance, Universidad Católica de Chile

My time as Luksic Visiting Scholar in the beloved DRCLAS in 2001, as one of the first two in this program, represented a very special stage for me in various ways, and somehow marked a “before” and an “after” in my career professional.

In the first place, it responded to an old desire to experience the extraordinary Harvard University, having a very broad access to its courses, at HBS and KSG in my case, to doctoral seminars with several Nobel prize winners, talks, workshops, libraries, and services. This opened up a world of interests, new criteria for me and new perspectives that continue to accompany me almost 20 years later. For example, my current specialization and doctoral thesis in corporate governance – I feel that I was born intellectually there; and responded to the implicit challenge of creating impact in society, which I received from that experience in 2001.

DRCLAS and the Luksic family gave us a very rich community of colleagues, friends and close – all the Luksic Scholars – with whom we continue to share until today.”

Secondly, I must emphasize the tremendous warmth, openness and extraordinary disposition with which I was received in Kirkland, the old house of DRCLAS, by the entire team, including Steve Reifenberg, Marcela Rentería, and many others that would be too long to list; among whom we should mention fellow Visiting Scholars: the Rockefeller Scholars of Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Ecuador, etc., who represented a true family in Cambridge; besides giving me new and lasting perspectives on their own countries, mine, and the USA. I could even venture to say that this scholarship made me rediscover Latin America, when I visualized it from Harvard, with the novel elements of judgment that gave me these experiences.

Third, and on a more personal level, DRCLAS represented a professional respite; an opportunity for reflection, self-questioning, and rethinking my professional projection. In my case, I believe that from this experience I went from being a practitioner to a scholar-practitioner, changing my orientation, focus and my own objectives in my work world.

Finally, DRCLAS and the Luksic family gave us a very rich community of colleagues, friends and close – all the Luksic Scholars – with whom we continue to share until today; and feeling in each encounter a special empathy and union for having had the privilege of living this extraordinary experience.

Sally Yuan

Conducting Business in Chile (CMIX)

Vicepresidente, Gestión de Riesgo, Dongxing Securities Corp.

Lo más importante de todo: hice muchos y muy buenos amigos chilenos, y compartimos nuestros sentimientos respecto del trabajo, la vida y pasatiempos. Realmente pasamos un gran tiempo juntos, y debiéramos ser amigos de por vida”.

Tengo antecedents profesionales diversos, comenzando por Deloitte Consulting por tres años, enfocada mayoritariamente en el ámbito de cómo el Acuerdo de Basilea aplicó a los bancos comerciales chinos con clientes tales como el China Development Bank, China Merchants Bank y otros.

Luego trabajé para Sinochem Finance Company como asistente del gerente de administración de riesgo, focalizada en la estructura de manejo de riesgo y riesgos de negocio de toda la compañía. Ahora me desempeño en el departamento de minimización de riesgos de la administración de activos y bonos de inversión.

Tengo dos títulos de Tsinghua University, ambos, licenciatura y máster en negocios de la Escuela de Negocios y Administración. Mientras estudiaba en el programa de MBA, gané mucha experiencia de vida del programa C-MIX durante nuestro viaje a Chile, y fue un honor haber sido escogida. Fue una de las experiencias más memorables de mi vida.

Aprendí tanto sobre Chile desde las visitas en terreno hasta las clases, al mismo tiempo de las invaluables interacciones con nuestros compañeros chilenos. Asimismo, tuvimos la oportunidad de visitar grandes compañías chilenas, ¡Fue realmente grandioso! Aún recuerdo las increíbles presentaciones hechas por esas compañías e instituciones financieras.

Lo más importante de todo: hice muchos y muy buenos amigos chilenos, y compartimos nuestros sentimientos respecto del trabajo, la vida y pasatiempos. Realmente pasamos un gran tiempo juntos, y debiéramos ser amigos de por vida.