Professor Francisco L. Roman, DBA, has been associated with AIM since 1970. He is currently teaching in the AIM Graduate School of Business. Until September 2007, he served as the Associate Dean of the Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Executive Director of the Hills Governance Program (HGP), under the Ramon V. del Rosario (RVR) Center for Corporate Social Responsibility, of which he is a Fellow.
The HGP (Philippines) as part of the RVR Center addresses issues of corporate governance at the intersection between the private and the public sectors, focusing on specific industries or sectors. As the Executive Director, Prof. Roman supervised fund-raising, undertook cases and research and ran forums on various issues and industries—corruption in the military and textbook purchasing, responsible mining, and whistle blowing. Prof. Roman’s work linked CSR and governance. In mid-2005, he and the HGP ran surveys and forums and then published a Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance (funded by the World Bank). In mid-2007 he was a consultant for the Emirates Environmental Group (EEG) in Dubai for a regional program on CSR, the environment and good governance.
As both an Educator and a consultant, Prof. Roman has been engaged in teaching in degree and non-degree programs since 1970 not only in the Philippines but also in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India, but also in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS)—in Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia. As a Project Consultant, Prof. Roman worked on two USAID projects on the Global Work Force Improvement Project involving jobs of Out-of-School Youth (OSY) in the southern (Muslim) Philippines, and in Cambodia to assess prospects for youth employment in the context of jobless growth. Moreover, with his Agribusiness academic background and professional experience, he was an Agribusiness Development consultant for an Integrated Area Development Project for a southeastern province in Viet Nam. Prof. Roman worked in Bihar (India) with the Government of Bihar to develop a more competitive sugar industry, He was also an investment consultant for the feasibility to open two restaurants in New York City: one for US$ 6M. in Manhattan and another for US$ 3M. in Brooklyn. He was a consultant to the Royal Institute of Management in Bhutan for capacity-building of its faculty.
As a researcher and author, he was a contributor or co-author in four books, on “Management in Developing Countries”, on “Small Enterprise Development in the Third World”, on the “Philippine Mutual Fund Industry”, and on “Family Corporations in Transition”. As the RVR Senior Fellow, he is a contributor to two books on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Philippines, “Doing Good in Business Matters”, and in a book on Governance in the Philippines, “The Power To Govern”. A book on Governance in Family Corporations was recently published in 2009. He is a co-editor and author of the AIM Journal of Management and also sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Asian Case Research Journal of the National University of Singapore.
Prof. Roman completed his Doctorate in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, in International Business, a field that studies multi-national enterprises, with a sub-specialization in Agribusiness in developing countries. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a BA in Economics and an MBA (major in Export Marketing). He completed is MA in Economics (major in Economic Devleopment) from the University of Hawaii, where he was a Fellow of the East West Center. He received certificates from the International Teachers’ Programme (ITP) at the Centre D’Enseignement Superieur Des Affaires, France, and from the German Foundation for International Development as a Lecturer on Competition Policy.
