Speakers – SME World Forum

Rubén Ascúa

Co-Chair, SME World Forum, Rector at Universidad Nacional de Rafaela; ICSB Knowledge Hub Director, UNRAF, ICSB Past President

Ayman El Tarabishy

Co-Chair, SME World Forum.

Deputy Chair, Department of Management, GW School of Business

President & CEO, International Council for Small Business

Winslow Sargeant

Chair of the Board, International Council for Small Business

Ahmed Osman

Immediate Past Chair, International Council for Small Business

Rita Grant

Finance, Treasurer, and Secretary, International Council for Small Business

Katia Passerini

Provost and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Seton Hall University

Jeff Alves

Managing Editor, JICSB Journal, ICSB Board Member

KiChan Kim

Professor of Management at the Catholic University of Korea

Chairman at Korea Testing Certification (KTC)

Vice President of Humane Entrepreneurship at the International Council for Small Business

Rubén Ascúa

Rubén Ascúa is Rector of the National University of Rafaela since 2017, professor at the Rafaela Regional Faculty of UTN and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Kaiserslautern and Karlsruhe. He is a National Public Accountant (UNL-FCE),he has a BA in Economics (UNR-FCEyE) and a PhD in Economics (PWU San Diego).

His fields of research and teaching are: SME and start-up development; theory of the firm;
markets and financing instruments for SMEs; formulation and evaluation of industrial
investment projects; clusters and industrial districts.

Marcelo Costamagna

National Public Accountant – Mg. in Business Management; Research Fellow; Professor in the subject Marketing and commercialization; Director of the Bachelor in Administration and Information Management; Director of the Master in Business Administration; Responsible for Interinstitutional Relations at UNRaf

Andrea Minetti

Andrea Minetti is in charge of the Research and Technology Transfer Secretary and the Entrepreneurial Development Department at the National University of Rafaela. Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Organization (National Technological University, Argentina). Professor and researcher.