ROBERTO E. BATRES SOTO

Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin, 1964.
MBA, University of Texas in Austin, 1966.
Member of the Executive Committee and Coach Professor of the Management Education Institute at Arthur D. Little as part of the MBA Program for top level executives 1987-1994, Cambridge Massachusetts, U.S.A.
 
 
Professor and Co-founder of The Chair on International Competitiveness and Development at Monterrey Technological Institute, since 2001.
 
Co-author of the book “International Competitiveness and Development: Achieving it in Mexico”, McGraw-Hill 2006.
 
President of Artyen, S.A. de C.V., a business firm located in Monterrey, Mexico, focused on construction and sale of residential homes, buildings and rental property.
 
Management consultant specialized in international competitiveness and strategy at Arthur D. Little, a consulting firm, managed the Mexico and later the Latin America consulting business of that firm, 1983-1999.
 
Was one of the main advisors to the Ministry of Commerce of Mexico in the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 
Speaker on subjects of business strategy, and industrial and regional development, at institutions and universities of Mexico, Texas and Massachusetts (USA), Chile, Argentina and Brazil.