Romain Pouzou - Faculty

Romain Pouzou graduated from the Bachelor of Business of The European Business School of Bordeaux, France, and the MSc Finance of Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. He worked as an entrepreneur and CFO of several startups, including Forbes’ technological Top 100: Limonetik. He has been working at the Tecnológico de Monterrey since 2012 as a professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, consultant, Regional Director of Social Entrepreneurship and currently Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship. Additionally, he is a mentor at the social business’ incubator: Unreasonable Mexico since 2013 and coauthor of the book “Mexico 10 Social Entrepreneurs.” 

He is currently involved as a consultant for lifelong learnings designing and implementing courses of financial thinking for the decision-making process of businesses’ leaders.

• Design leader of the “Entrepreneurship in Action” concentration and of the course “Innovation Methodology”
• Co-designer of the “Innovative Entrepreneurship” Semestre i, “Entrepreneurship with Purpose” Semana Tec, and the courses of “Shared-value creation” and “Social Entrepreneurship”.
• He teaches classes of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and modules of Finance for Entrepreneurs. 

• Bachelor in Business, École de Commerce Européenne de Bordeaux, Grupo Inseec, France.
• MSc. Finance, de Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom.
• Post-degree in Business Coaching, Universidad de San Sebastian, Chile.
• Certification in Entrepreneurship Educator’s Programme, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
   

• Pouzou, R., Rehák, J., (2020) Acelerando el desarrollo de emprendedores sociales a través de experiencias educativas inmersivas: el caso de Global Entrepreneurship Summer School, congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa.
• Coautor (2019) “El Emprendimiento en el Estado de Querétaro: Análisis de los datos del Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2019/2020”, Global Entrepreneurship Research Association 
• Coautor (2020) México 10. Emprendedores sociales, Lid Editorial Mexicana ISBN 978-607-8704-08-8
• Rehák, J., Pouzou, R., (2019) Evolution of evaluation methodology in social entrepreneurship classes: The case of Social entrepreneurship fair, Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa.
• Pouzou, R., Rehák, J., Barrón, S., (2018) Minimum Wage Experiment: An Innovation Fostering Social Entrepreneurship – Congreso Internacional de Innovación Educativa 2018
• Diegoli, R., Pouzou, R., (2018) Semestre I “Innovative Entrepreneurship” of Tecnológico de Monterrey – International Council for Small Business. 
   

• QS Reimagine Education Award 2019: Finalist in the category K12.
• GPS Master Enactus 2019: Prize given to the social entrepreneurship mentor of the year. 
• Instructor of Coursera’s “entrepreneurial strategies” course with more than 5000 participants.
• Finalist of the Academic Award of the International Council of Small and Medium Businesses (ICSB) 2015.
• Startup of the Year prize given by the French Senate in 2008.