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Alfredo Behrens

Alfredo Behrens (1951) holds a Ph.D. by University of Cambridge and is currently a Professor of Cross-cultural Leadership at FIA Business School, São Paulo.

He is most active on issues such as: leadership; cross-cultural management, besides internationalization of companies out of emerging markets and Triple Bottom Line issues (formerly CSR) pertaining multinationals in Brazil. He has worked in or with the private and public sector in the Americas, East and Western Europe and Southern Africa.

His latest work is available as an e-book “Shooting Heroes and Rewarding Cowards” and is published in Portuguese by Bei in São Paulo (2011). This book was called “fascinating and innovative” by Suzy Welch, the former Editor-In-Chief of Harvard Business Review. Professor Behrens’  book Culture and Management in the Americas, was published by Stanford University Press in 2009 and is also available in Portuguese by Editora Saraiva. The book was selected by Época Negócios as the best Brazilian business book of the year.

Alfredo Behrens has lectured at or consulted for Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School; University of California at Berkeley; and for business schools such as London Business School, Thunderbird Global School of Management, Katz, of the University of Pittsburgh, ESCP Europe, and Insper São Paulo.

Alfredo Behrens' work has transcended  the area of business management, as shown by the 2011 award by the Brazilian Meteorological Society for co-authoring a culturally-based contribution to the effective prevention and mitigation of losses due to torrential rainstorms  in tropical regions. He was also awarded the McNamara Fellowship by the World Bank, the Hewlett fellowship by Princeton University, The Boa Vista Bank award, and the Jean Monet  Fellowship by the European University, Fiesole, Italy.

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