Julio DeCastro, associate professor of organizational management at the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business, has been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Management.
The Academy of Management, based at Pace University in New York, is the premier organization of management professors, bringing together 12,000 members from the United States and throughout the world. The board of governors both manages and sets policy for the organization.
DeCastro teaches entrepreneurial environments and other courses in the areas of strategy and entrepreneurship. His research examines entrepreneurial and cross-cultural aspects of firm management and strategy, often focusing on less developed and former communist countries.
DeCastro received his industrial engineering degree from Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina.
In 1995, he earned the Robert S. McNamara Fellowship from the World Bank to study the privatization of state-owned enterprises in the Dominican Republic.