Dr. Hugo Hervitz, Professor and Executive Director

Dr. Hugo Hervitz is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. He has been a Professor of Economics and International Business in South Florida for over 25 years, specializing in International Trade and Finance in Europe and Latin America. He has also taught Cross Cultural Communication for the Global MBA Program at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Dr. Hervitz founded Forum-Nexus Study Abroad in 1990 and has been its Executive Director ever since, directing dozens of intensive summer and winter programs in Europe and elsewhere, with the participation of over 3,000 students from the U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, Holland, Turkey, China, Indonesia, Australia, India and Pakistan.

Dr. Hervitz was born in Argentina and has a B.A. in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Master’s degree in Management from Imperial College in London, an M.A. in Economics and Latin American Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Indiana University. He has been a visiting professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico, at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, at the Fachhochschule Kufstein in Austria, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He has extensive consulting experience in the U.S., Europe and Latin America and has served as economics commentator for CNN en Español. He has pioneered the concept of measuring and developing a student’s International IQ and is the author of the ground-breaking International Knowledge Assessment Test - IKAT which quantifies the level of International IQ.

Dr. Hervitz loves to travel and has a passion for learning foreign languages. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hebrew, proficient in German and Portuguese, and has basic conversational knowledge of Arabic, Greek and Yiddish. He is very happy to live in Miami, where he enjoys the multilingual and multicultural environment, the warm weather and the ocean. He is married with three children. His wife Esther is a clinical psychologist, specializing in Neuropsychology. Their son Micky is a graduate of Wharton’s MBA program working in banking on Wall Street. Their daughter Dalia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, worked for three years in consulting for a Big Four accounting firm in New York City, and is currently in the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Their daughter Shuli recently graduated from Yale University and is working in market research in New York City.

Edoardo Teodoro Brioschi

Professor Brioschi is a Distinguished Professor of Advertising and Business Strategy at the Catholic University of Milan. He is considered one of Europe's leading authorities in the field of Business Communication and was awarded the Charles H. Sandage Award for Teaching Excellence by the American Academy of Advertising. He has been the author and editor of over 70 publications, including, most recently, The Advertising Paradigm: History, Theory and Ethics; Etica e deontologia nella comunicazione d'azienda; and Total Business Communication: Profiles and Problems for the New Century.

Carlos Moslares García

Dr. Carlos Moslares is a professor of Economics and Finance and Associate Dean at the IQS School of Management of the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. He was born in Barcelona where he studied Economics and Business Administration at the Universidad de Barcelona. He earned a Ph.D. in Econo-mics from Florida International University in Miami. He has ample corporate experience in Spain, the U.S. and Algeria and has conducted numerous consulting projects in international business. He has published many articles and books and has served as a Visiting Professor at the State University of New York, at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico, at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, and at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Michael Tyler

Dr. Michael Tyler is a Professor of Accounting, Accounting Discipline Coordinator and Chair of the Faculty Senate at Barry University in Miami, Florida. He has been a professor in the Andreas School of Business for 17 years and has won numerous teaching recognitions during his tenure including being named "Outstanding Professor" in the University. Dr. Tyler taught for several years in an Executive MBA program in Kingston, Jamaica. For the past five years he has taught Financial Accounting for Tecnologico de Monterrey and Thunderbird University in their Global MBA (GMBA) for Latin American Managers. This course is simulcast to numerous countries/cities to and from Latin America. In 2011, he was selected as the "Outstanding Professor" in the GMBA.

Dr. Tyler has dozens of publications including numerous articles in prestigious academic journals. Dr. Tyler has presented numerous academic papers in both the United States and Europe.

Dr. Tyler was born and raised in Miami. He received his Ph.D. in Accounting from Florida International University in 1995. He and his wife Maria have two sons - Ben who is a sophomore at Georgetown University and Steven who is a junior in high school in Miami

Dr. Tyler has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to three start-up companies. He has considerable consulting experience, including twice training under contract the financial analysts for a major financial institution. He also provided training to the accountants of a Russian gas company, one of the world's largest, for the World Trade Center Miami immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Georges Rocourt

Georges Rocourt is a Professor and Executive in Residence in the International Management Department of Franklin College, Switzerland. He studied Economics at Northwestern University (B.A.) and at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D./ABD). Prof. Rocourt has had a distinguished career in banking and finance, serving as Chief Economist for Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Co. in Baltimore, Vice President for Economics and Investment Strategy at Ganz Capital Management in Miami, and as President of GRE Capital Markets Consulting Services in Switzerland. He has been a Professor of Economics and Finance at Barry University in Miami, at Towson University, and at Loyola College of Baltimore. He specializes in financial theory, multinational corporate financial strategy and corporate exchange rate hedging.

Silvia Agulló Gimeno

Dr. Silvia Agulló is a Professor of Marketing at the IQS School of Management of the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, where she specializes in the fields of innovation and creativity. She has extensive corporate experience as senior product manager and trade marketing manager with leading multinational companies: Pepsico, Pfizer, Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. She has obtained intensive training as an Innovation Green Belt by What If in London, the world's largest innovation company.

Peter Martin Resch

Peter Resch is a Visiting Professor of International Business at the Lubar School of Business of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He was born in Germany and studied International Marketing at Baruch College in New York and International Management at the prestigious ESADE Graduate Business School in Barcelona. He has been a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico, at the Fachhochschule Kufstein in Austria, and at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland. Prof. Resch has broad international experience in management consulting, marketing communication and management. He has lived and worked in 12 countries and speaks three languages fluently.

Reccia N. Charles

Trinidadian born Dr. Reccia Charles is a Professor of International Business and Finance at St. George's University, in Grenada, in the Caribbean. She studied Finance and International Business in the U.S.; she earned her doctorate at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in International Business. Her research interests focus on national cultures' influence on management, and the impact of globalization, the World Trade Organization and Caribbean-European economic partnership agreements on traditional Caribbean industries.

An active scholar and consultant, Dr. Charles has several book chapters and conference publications. Dr. Charles is responsible for the development and delivery of undergraduate classes in International Business, International Marketing, Finance, and Managing Across Cultures at St. George's University for the last 14 years. Her consultancy includes work with Small and Medium sized businesses in the Eastern Caribbean. She currently serves as the National Expert in Business Skills Development under the project Livelihood Development via Agro-processing for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The project is funded by the European Union under the Special Framework of Assistance 2006.

Clare E. Morrall

British born Dr. Clare Morrall is an Associate Professor in the department of Biology, Ecology and Conservation at St. George's University in Grenada, in the Caribbean. She studied Biological Sciences and Applied Marine Science in the UK. Dr. Morrall's doctoral research was conducted on the island of Bermuda and she was awarded her doctorate from the University of Plymouth. Dr. Morrall has over fifteen years of professional experience in marine and environmental science, natural resource conservation and environmental policy. Over the past decade she has served as a consultant for numerous government agencies and international organizations in the fields of sustainable development and marine research.

Nichole Castater

Dr. Nichole Castater received her Ph.D. in Finance and International Business from the University of South Carolina. She has both a BA in German and MBA from the University of Florida, and grew up in the South Florida area. She is a Fulbright Scholar studied privatization and market institution development in Central and Eastern Europe. Dr. Castater has previous teaching and work experience in Germany and Russia and is proficient in four languages.

Her previous teaching experience involves all areas of finance - from personal finance to corporate finance to investments - at the University of South Carolina, the University of Florida, the University of Maryland University College, Clark Atlanta University, and Barry University. She currently teaches Finance at Barry University. Her most current research projects involve the privatized military industry and issues concerning the current global economic crises.