Master in Business Management, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines.

Master in Public Administration, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, USA.

MARIO ANTONIO LOPEZ is Professor at the Asian Institute of Management Administration where he has also served as Assistant Dean and Associate Dean. Prof. Lopez has varied multi-sector, multi-industry and multinational consulting career, and works with corporations, not-for-profit organizations and government agencies -- both civilian and military -- in the following areas: strategic national, sector, and corporate planning; human resources and organizational development; project development and management; policy analyses; and economic-political risk assessment. He has written cases in business policy, public management, human behavior in organization, and environmental scanning. Prof. Lopez writes the Management Association of the Philippines column, MAPping the Future, for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and the column, To Take a Stand, for BusinessWorld.