An original thinker and initiator, Nilima Bhat is an expert in leadership, organizational culture, conscious business, and self-awareness for work-life balance based on Indian wisdom and wellness traditions. She is also an advocate of gender equity and women in leadership.

Nilima worked for over 10 years for renowned brands such as ESPN STAR Sports, Philips India, and ITC-Welcomgroup in the areas of Corporate Communications and PR.

As the Founder-Director of Shakti Leadership, and an expert in leadership, gender equity, and well-being, Nilima has given workshops and training in leadership for Microsoft, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Societe Generale Bank, Vodafone, and YPO, as well as academic institutions and organizations like the Indus International School and SKS Microfinance.

She is an active supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement and Women’s International Networking (WIN).

Nilima is a certified yoga teacher from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and is a teacher-practitioner of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. 
 
In addition, her work focuses on being a facilitator of personal transformation for individuals and organizations in their journey toward conscious growth. She studies and teaches a model of regenerative systems that impacts social relations from a wide range of topics: social enterprises, personal mastery, self-care, and self-love.

The most important aspect of her work and life is sharing how to navigate the journey toward personal mastery and selfless service since it can lead to free and fulfilled lives and environments for everyone. Her focus is on developing Body Intelligence (BQ), which is the ability to become aware of the body and how it responds to changes in order to achieve well-being, and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), which involves more self-awareness and reflection toward a life of purpose or meaning.

With her association with Hong Kong University’s Centre for Behavioral Health, she learned, developed, and practiced an Integrative Medicine Model, Sampurnah (meaning ‘Wholeness’), to help patients heal through cancer and other lifestyle diseases.

One of her projects is the ‘Shakti Fellowship’, with the University of San Diego, WIN, and Skolkovo FLOW, with the purpose of empowering 100,000 women changemakers by 2030.

She has also initiated and co-convened the Truth & Reconciliation movement for healing collective trauma and leading harmonious interdependence at a planetary level.

She is an international keynote speaker at conferences on mindfulness, women's leadership, gender sensitization, and happiness at work, in countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India.

Nilima Bhat has written two books, Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business and My Cancer Is Me – The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. They both establish an integrated approach to DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging), leadership, well-being, and resilience.

The book Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business was co-written with fellow Faculty of Excellence professor from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Raj Sisodia. It explains a type of leadership that is cooperative, creative, inclusive, empathetic, and assertive, which allows people to live and lead in balance and consciousness.

At a time when the world is looking for new models, Shakti Leadership has been referenced in many multilateral organizations and audiences such as the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, UN, World Bank, and IMF.

Due to her experience, she has served on the advisory board of MixR, 20-first, and Peace Through Commerce. Shakti Leadership is also recognized as a Home For Humanity. 

She received the INDICA Cultural-Changemaker Fellowship Award for initiating the Shakti Kumbh, the world’s first Kumbh Mela for Women, showcasing ancient spiritual traditions of the Divine Feminine. 

In 2022, Nilima was conferred an Honorary PhD by Jharkhand Rai University, India, for her “iconic and outstanding contribution in the field of Women Empowerment”.  

Nilima Bhat joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Gender and Conscious Leadership for the Business School, EGADE Business School, and the School of Humanities and Education since September 2023.

• PG Diploma, Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai 
• BSc, Life Sciences and Biochemistry, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

• Bhat, N., & Sisodia, R. (2016). Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

• Bhat, V., & Bhat, N. (2013). My cancer is me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. Hay House Publishing.

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An original thinker and initiator, Nilima Bhat is an expert in leadership, organizational culture, conscious business, and self-awareness for work-life balance based on Indian wisdom and wellness traditions. She is also an advocate of gender equity and women in leadership.

Nilima worked for over 10 years for renowned brands such as ESPN STAR Sports, Philips India, and ITC-Welcomgroup in the areas of Corporate Communications and PR.

As the Founder-Director of Shakti Leadership, and an expert in leadership, gender equity, and well-being, Nilima has given workshops and training in leadership for Microsoft, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Societe Generale Bank, Vodafone, and YPO, as well as academic institutions and organizations like the Indus International School and SKS Microfinance.

She is an active supporter of the Conscious Capitalism movement and Women’s International Networking (WIN).

Nilima is a certified yoga teacher from the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre and is a teacher-practitioner of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. 
 
In addition, her work focuses on being a facilitator of personal transformation for individuals and organizations in their journey toward conscious growth. She studies and teaches a model of regenerative systems that impacts social relations from a wide range of topics: social enterprises, personal mastery, self-care, and self-love.

The most important aspect of her work and life is sharing how to navigate the journey toward personal mastery and selfless service since it can lead to free and fulfilled lives and environments for everyone. Her focus is on developing Body Intelligence (BQ), which is the ability to become aware of the body and how it responds to changes in order to achieve well-being, and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), which involves more self-awareness and reflection toward a life of purpose or meaning.

With her association with Hong Kong University’s Centre for Behavioral Health, she learned, developed, and practiced an Integrative Medicine Model, Sampurnah (meaning ‘Wholeness’), to help patients heal through cancer and other lifestyle diseases.

One of her projects is the ‘Shakti Fellowship’, with the University of San Diego, WIN, and Skolkovo FLOW, with the purpose of empowering 100,000 women changemakers by 2030.

She has also initiated and co-convened the Truth & Reconciliation movement for healing collective trauma and leading harmonious interdependence at a planetary level.

She is an international keynote speaker at conferences on mindfulness, women's leadership, gender sensitization, and happiness at work, in countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Croatia, Israel, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and India.

Nilima Bhat has written two books, Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business and My Cancer Is Me – The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. They both establish an integrated approach to DEI&B (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging), leadership, well-being, and resilience.

The book Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business was co-written with fellow Faculty of Excellence professor from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Raj Sisodia. It explains a type of leadership that is cooperative, creative, inclusive, empathetic, and assertive, which allows people to live and lead in balance and consciousness.

At a time when the world is looking for new models, Shakti Leadership has been referenced in many multilateral organizations and audiences such as the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, UN, World Bank, and IMF.

Due to her experience, she has served on the advisory board of MixR, 20-first, and Peace Through Commerce. Shakti Leadership is also recognized as a Home For Humanity. 

She received the INDICA Cultural-Changemaker Fellowship Award for initiating the Shakti Kumbh, the world’s first Kumbh Mela for Women, showcasing ancient spiritual traditions of the Divine Feminine. 

In 2022, Nilima was conferred an Honorary PhD by Jharkhand Rai University, India, for her “iconic and outstanding contribution in the field of Women Empowerment”.  

Nilima Bhat joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Professor in Gender and Conscious Leadership for the Business School, EGADE Business School, and the School of Humanities and Education since September 2023.

• PG Diploma, Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai 
• BSc, Life Sciences and Biochemistry, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

• Bhat, N., & Sisodia, R. (2016). Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

• Bhat, V., & Bhat, N. (2013). My cancer is me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. Hay House Publishing.

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Dr. Rob Roggema was a landscape-driven design and sustainable urban environments professor at three universities in the Netherlands and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is a visiting professor in Landscape Urbanism at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland and was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University in Australia, and a Distinguished Global Professor at KEIO University in Japan.

He is the founder of Cittaideale, an office for adaptive design, spatial planning, and design research for regenerative urban environments and landscapes. Some of the design concepts he has developed are FoodRoofRio, a rooftop garden with an aquaponic system that provided food for families in the Cantagalo favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Moeder Zernike, a regional long-term regenerative plan for the northern part of the Netherlands; and Nature Rich Netherlands,
a national plan to convert Dutch land use to 50% nature while solving problems related to climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, and housing.

For his Ph.D., he developed the Swarm Planning concept, a new method for planning and responding to climate adaptation and spatial design. Rob Roggema’s research interests are in creating innovative spatial solutions for regenerative urban landscapes. He has facilitated over 40 design charrettes in the Netherlands, Japan, Mongolia, China, Jordan, India, Australia, and New Zealand, engaging communities, academics, governments, and industries in complex design processes to address wicked problems.

Rob Roggema joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Professor in Regenerative Cultures for the School of Architecture, Art and Design.

• Ph.D., Swarm Planning: The development of a methodology to deal with climate adaptation, Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University & Research
• M.Sc., Landscape Architecture, Wageningen University & Research
   

• Roggema, R.; Chamski, R. The New Urban Profession: Entering the Age of Uncertainty. Urban Sci. 2022, 6, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6010010

• Roggema, R. (2022). Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes: Rebalancing Human Impact and Natural Environment (Contemporary Urban Design Thinking) (English Edition). Springer.

• Roggema, Rob. (2021). TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization. 10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Nature Driven Urbanism. 10.1007/978-3-030-26717-9. 

• Roggema, Rob. (2020). Designing Sustainable Cities. 10.1007/978-3-030-54686-1. 

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Dr. Carlos Coello is a professor with distinction (Investigador CINVESTAV 3F) at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico City and visiting professor at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in Spain. Has taught master’s and Ph.D. level courses on evolutionary computation, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, programming languages, and engineering optimization at CINVESTAV-IPN. In addition, he has taught short courses in Spain, England, India, U.S., among others.

His research interests are evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms and evolution strategies), as well as engineering optimization. His main contributions have been the design of biologically inspired stochastic algorithms to solve highly complex multi-objective optimization problems (mainly non-linear). He has made pioneering contributions to this area, which is now known as evolutionary multi-objective optimization. For example, he proposed, along with his research group, the first genetic micro-algorithm for multi-objective optimization, which has been used in real-world applications in several countries, like the United States, for the design of supersonic business jets. He is member of the Foundation Advisory Board of the International AIQT Foundation, which strives to establish a highly competitive (international-level) research center in artificial intelligence and quantum technology.

Among his multiple special recognitions and awards, Dr. Carlos Coello was awarded by the International Society on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) the 2024 MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award. In 2023, he won the Premio Crónica in Science and Technology and was selected by Líderes magazine as part of their "300 most influential leaders in Mexico" list, taking the 69th position. He also won the SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award (2023) given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award (2021), among many others.

Dr. Coello is level 3 in the National System of Researchers (SNII) in Mexico and was also ranked #289 in the world and #1 in Mexico in the 8th Edition of the Guide2Research 2022 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics.

Professor Carlos Coello joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Computer Science and Computational Intelligence for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans
• M.Sc., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (Summa cum laude)
   

• Sofien Boutaib, Maha Elarbi, Slim Bechikh, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Lamjed Ben Said, Uncertainty-wise Software Anti-patterns Detection: A Possibilistic Evolutionary Machine Learning Approach, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 129, Article Number: 109620, November 2022.

• Forhad Zaman, Saber Elsayed, Ruhul Sarker, Daryl Essam and Carlos A. Coello Coello, Pro-Reactive Approach for Project Scheduling Under Unpredictable Disruptions, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 11299--11312, November 2022.

• Lingjie Li, Yongfeng Li, Qiuzhen Lin, Zhong Ming, Carlos A. Coello Coello, A Convergence and Diversity Guided Leader Selection Strategy for Many-objective Particle Swarm Optimization<, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 155, Article Number: 105249, October 2022.

• Qiuzhen Lin, Xunfeng Wu, Jianqiang Li, Maoguo Gong and Carlos A. Coello Coello, An Ensemble Surrogate-based Framework for Expensive Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 631--645, August 2022.

• Qiyuan Yu, Qiuzhen Lin, Zexuan Zhu, Ka-Chun Wong, Carlos A. Coello Coello, A dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on polynomial regression and adaptive clustering, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 71, Article No. 101075, June 2022.

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Dr. Carlos Coello is a professor with distinction (Investigador CINVESTAV 3F) at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) in Mexico City and visiting professor at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in Spain. Has taught master’s and Ph.D. level courses on evolutionary computation, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, programming languages, and engineering optimization at CINVESTAV-IPN. In addition, he has taught short courses in Spain, England, India, U.S., among others.

His research interests are evolutionary computation (genetic algorithms and evolution strategies), as well as engineering optimization. His main contributions have been the design of biologically inspired stochastic algorithms to solve highly complex multi-objective optimization problems (mainly non-linear). He has made pioneering contributions to this area, which is now known as evolutionary multi-objective optimization. For example, he proposed, along with his research group, the first genetic micro-algorithm for multi-objective optimization, which has been used in real-world applications in several countries, like the United States, for the design of supersonic business jets. He is member of the Foundation Advisory Board of the International AIQT Foundation, which strives to establish a highly competitive (international-level) research center in artificial intelligence and quantum technology.

Among his multiple special recognitions and awards, Dr. Carlos Coello was awarded by the International Society on Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) the 2024 MCDM Edgeworth-Pareto Award. In 2023, he won the Premio Crónica in Science and Technology and was selected by Líderes magazine as part of their "300 most influential leaders in Mexico" list, taking the 69th position. He also won the SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award (2023) given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award (2021), among many others.

Dr. Coello is level 3 in the National System of Researchers (SNII) in Mexico and was also ranked #289 in the world and #1 in Mexico in the 8th Edition of the Guide2Research 2022 Ranking of Top 1000 Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics.

Professor Carlos Coello joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Computer Science and Computational Intelligence for the School of Engineering and Sciences.

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans
• M.Sc., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans
• B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (Summa cum laude)
   

• Sofien Boutaib, Maha Elarbi, Slim Bechikh, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Lamjed Ben Said, Uncertainty-wise Software Anti-patterns Detection: A Possibilistic Evolutionary Machine Learning Approach, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 129, Article Number: 109620, November 2022.

• Forhad Zaman, Saber Elsayed, Ruhul Sarker, Daryl Essam and Carlos A. Coello Coello, Pro-Reactive Approach for Project Scheduling Under Unpredictable Disruptions, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 11299--11312, November 2022.

• Lingjie Li, Yongfeng Li, Qiuzhen Lin, Zhong Ming, Carlos A. Coello Coello, A Convergence and Diversity Guided Leader Selection Strategy for Many-objective Particle Swarm Optimization<, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 155, Article Number: 105249, October 2022.

• Qiuzhen Lin, Xunfeng Wu, Jianqiang Li, Maoguo Gong and Carlos A. Coello Coello, An Ensemble Surrogate-based Framework for Expensive Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 631--645, August 2022.

• Qiyuan Yu, Qiuzhen Lin, Zexuan Zhu, Ka-Chun Wong, Carlos A. Coello Coello, A dynamic multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on polynomial regression and adaptive clustering, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 71, Article No. 101075, June 2022.

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