Vice President-at-Large
Mexican Association of Accounting and Business Faculty

Salvador Ruiz-de-Chavez
Santisimo 30, San Angel
A. Obregon
Mexico, D.F. 01000 MEXICO (MX)
generalgmce@prodigy.net.mx

Salvador Ruiz-de-Chávez (SRCH) spent 22 years teaching at the School of Accounting and Business of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was dean from 1989 to 1993.

He was the Chair (2000-2004) of the Committee for the Evaluation of Accounting Education where he was a member (1993-1998). The Interinstitutional Committees for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CIEES) are sponsored by the National Association of Universities (ANUIES) and the Ministry of Education.

From 1994 to 2002 he was the director of Accounting Examinations at the National Center of Evaluation for Higher Education (Ceneval) sponsored by the Ministry of Education, the National Association of Universities (ANUIES) and the Mexican Institute of CPA’s.

 e has participated in the Executive Committee of the Mexican Association of Accounting and Business Faculty (APCAM), since its creation in 1998. He served also as president of the National Association of Schools of Accounting and Business (ANFECA, 1989-1993); as president (1992-1993) and as vice-president (1990-1992) of the National Association of Continuing Education, and as president of the Latin American Association of Schools of Accounting (1992-1993). He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Association of Certified Public Accountants of Mexico City, which is the largest chapter of the Mexican Institute of CPAs (1991-1994).

Internationally, since 2002 he is vicepresident-at-large of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), where he served as vice-president (1992-1997); he was the international editor for Latin America of the Journal of Accounting Education (1994-2000) and he is member of the editorial boards of the SAM Advanced Management Journal (1994 to date), International Trade Journal (2001 to date) and Accounting Education: An International Journal (2005 to date).

He was also a member of the International Academic Relations Committee of The Institute of Internal Auditors (1996-2001). He was member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS, 1993-1994).  He was invited by the American Accounting Association (AAA) to serve as the Association’s Distinguished International Visiting Lecturer for the academic year 1995, and also as International Council Member at large (2008-2010)

Since 1976, he has worked as consultant in the financial and social marketing fields for the Ministry of Health and the Ministry  of Interior, several Mexican non-profit organizations, the Pan-American Health Organization and the Washington, DC based firm, the Futures Group. He was the president of the board of directors of the private firm Grupo Mexicano de Consultores en Educacion (Mexican Group of Educational Consultants) (1995-2010).

Since October 2010 he is the head of the Trainning Department of the Mexican Supreme Audit Institution, where he is working full time nowadays.

Mr. Ruiz-de-Chávez has presented 55 papers in national and international conferences; he has delivered 150 lectures in Mexico and 30 in the United States, Bolivia and Spain. He has coordinated 30 seminars and workshops in Mexico, one in Brazil and one in Puerto Rico.

He has written 40 technical articles in Mexican journals and one in the Japanese Monthly Review of Business Management. He is the co-author, with his father, of two Civil Law books; he is the coeditor of the book México-Corea. Gemelos económicos para el siglo 21 and has authored four chapters on Accounting education in two books published by the Mexican Institute of CPAs, one in the USA and one in Spain.

 Salvador Ruiz-de-Chávez holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Accounting, a Master in Business Administration and he finished his doctoral studies in Business Administration, all from UNAM. He also holds a diploma in Japanese Management from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (1974-1975).