Antonio Vives
Cumpetere
Antonio Vives is principal associate with Cumpetere, a consulting firm on sustainability and infrastructure finance, and adjunct professor, Stanford University. He's a former member of the advisory panel on sustainability at multinational corporations CEMEX and Abengoa, as well as a consultant on sustainability to several multilateral development banks. Antonio is the author of eight books, dozens of academic papers and hundreds of articles on Corporate Social Responsibility, and of dozens of papers on infrastructure finance and corporate finance, including a textbook. He is formerly a corporate finance professor or lecturer at the graduate business schools of IESA, Carnegie Mellon, George Washington and Virginia Tech.
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