The economist Ivan D Hernández is Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the University of Ibague. He has a PhD in economics of innovation in developing countries at the University of Manchester, UK and has two Master's degrees in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Warwick, UK.
Dr. Hernández is a researcher and trainer of researchers. His working career has been linked to the public sector in the National Bureau of Statistics, the General Comptrollership of the Republic, National Planning Department and National University of Colombia. He has been visiting professor and research associate at the Universities of Sussex and Manchester in the UK. Has academic links with the Business School of Harvard University, in the United States and the University of Cambridge, UK. Is affiliated to international networks Globelics, the International Association Schumpeterian and Microeconomics Network for the competitiveness of Harvard.
He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Economic Sciences in Colombia, was part of the Centre of Excellence in Studies in Complexity (Ceiba), of the universities of The Andes, Javeriana, Rosario and National. He won a scholarship from the Central Bank for doctoral studies abroad. Has peer-reviewed papers in international journals, chapters in books edited by international publishers, as with severa papers and chapters in national refereed journals and academic books national publishers.