CV Jaime Rojas Elgueta

Jaime Rojas Elgueta (1945) Jaime joined the IMO coregroup in January 2008. I share the observation, reflection and experience of colleagues at IMO concerning individual development which is essential for the development of organizations as communities. I consider IMO as a point of arrival and departure of my experience as consultant and manager. I have worked as organizational development consultant in companies and institutions in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Chile and other Latin American countries. Presently, I am a consultant to the European Commission (EC), the Economic Commission for Latin America, the Italo-Latin American Institute (www.iila.org) and the Ministry of Foreign Affaire of France and Italy in the area of cooperation. I was born in Chile and have lived in different countries of Latin America and Europe and presently reside between Geneva and Rome. I am married and have three children. I graduated in Law and hold a Master in Urban and Regional Planning from the Universidad Catolica de Chile and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris. My professional life in the area of organizational development began in Milan in 1975. Around the same time I also started an extensive consulting project with the Barcelonan City Council and the Barcelonan Metropolitan Government. I was General Manager of an Italian consulting company during 3 years and Manager of an Italian company, leader in robotics and mechanics, and also President and main stock holder of a company active in the Central American tourism sector. I also worked for the EC in different cooperation projects, among these as Director of the EC’s Coordination Office in Guatemala between 1995 and 1998. From 2001 until 2006, I was Director of the Socio-Economic Affairs Secretariat at the Italo-Latin American Institute, and have also been a consultant to the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Inter-American Development Bank. I taught as professor in different master programs in Europe and, more recently, at a private university in Rome which is linked to the Italian Entrepreneurs’ Association, at the Master and Ph.D. programme on horizontal leadership in Latin America. Recent publications Governance for equality in Latin America, in Democratic governance, a new paradigm for development, Ministère des Affaires Etrangeres Français, Paris, 2008. Il volto umano della direzione del personale, with Margherita Burgarella, Human Capital, n. 7-8/2007, EDK Editore, Rimini, Italy 2007. El valor de las Mipymes en el futuro de la cooperación económica Europa - América Latina, met Margherita Burgarella, European Commission, Conference "Supporting MSMEs in Latin America", November, 21st-23rd, 2007, Bologna, Italy. Ciudadanía y participación. Los casos de l’Hospitalet y de Amsterdam, CD-ROM “Lecciones y experiencias del Programa URB-AL”, European Commission, July 2007, Rosario, Argentina. La gestione del personale nelle Amministrazioni pubbliche europee, in La governance delle risorse umane, Formez, Roma, 2006. Casi di studio della Catalogna e dei Paesi Bassi, in Modelli di gestione delle risorse umane. Casi di studio nazionali ed europei (a cura di J. Rojas Elgueta e R. Ruffini). Da fines terrae a terra multilaterale: l’America Latina, in Atlante LUISS 2006. Ogni uomo è un artista: come ricreare le organizzazioni attraverso le Com-unit, met Marina Sampietro in Gestione e Sviluppo del Capitale Umano (Editor R. Panzarani), Roma 2006.