Ph.D. in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University, is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) since 1995. For five years he chaired the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN), a network of ten universities in the Americas and Spain created in 2001. He has published articles about alliances, social enterprises, education and development in popular media and academic journals —among them the American Sociological Review, the Review of Educational Research, the Journal of Management Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Harvard Business Review Latin America, the Journal of Business Ethics, Organization & Environment and Long Range Planning. With SEKN, Roberto edited the book Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica (Washington: Inter-American Development Bank & David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006). For a wider audience he edited the book Colombianos que Cambian el Mundo: Iniciativas Asombrosas al Servicio de la Gente (Bogotá: Editorial Planeta, 2013). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Social Enterprise Journal and the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Roberto has also worked as a consultant for the Ministry of the Family in Nicaragua, the National Department of Planning in Colombia, and different trade associations in Latin America. His work promotes cross-sector partnerships between private companies and nonprofit organizations.