RISE 2019 Conference

Jorge Haddock is the twentieth President of University of Puerto Rico. He Haddock has held academic positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clemson University and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Dr. Haddock has served as Dean of the Business School at the University of Richmond, George Mason University and the University of Massachusetts Boston. Some of the highlights as dean include completing an $18 million fund-raising campaign and achieving a rank of 12th among BusinessWeek rankings at Richmond and a first-time ranking on the “Best Part-Time MBA” and “Best Online Graduate Business Program” ranking at Mason. Dr. Haddock received the Minority Business Leader Award from The Washington Business Journal. He also have received both the Outstanding Young IE Award and the Excellence for Minority Advancement Award from IIE, the Martin Luther King, Jr Faculty/Staff Award, the Darrin Counseling Award and RAA Teaching Award at Rensselaer, and the Hispanic Educator of the Year Award both in New York State and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has authored and co-authored more than a hundred publications over a wide spectrum of topics ranging from basic and applied technical research to pedagogy and leadership. One of his most recognized works is the book Creating Global Business Leaders: Business Education at the Intersection of Innovation, Technology and Globalization. The U.S. and New York State governments, as well as many corporations, have awarded more than five million dollars in research funding. He has also been a consultant to many companies including Baxter, Citibank and Michelin. He is also a co-inventor of the patent: Method of System for Providing Credit Support to Parties Associated with Derivative and Other Financial Transactions. Dr. Haddock is from Caguas, Puerto Rico, earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at the Mayaguez Campus, M.S. in Management Engineering from Rensselaer and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. He has been married to his wife, María, for almost 40 years and together they have two children, Angelique and Alex, and four grandkids, Desmond, Cameron, Lily and Noah.