Director, Pôle IDEOS-HEC

Luciano Barin Cruz is Full Professor of Management and Sustainability at HEC Montréal, Canada. He is the Director of Pôle Ideos (social impact centre) at HEC Montreal, the Director of the Yunus Social Business Centre (HEC Montreal) and the Director of the ‘Sustainability Challenge’ module of the EMBA McGill-HEC Montreal. He holds a research professorship on organizational models and social impact. Professor Barin Cruz has served as an expert on projects supported by the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB), the Government of Quebec, and Desjardins International Development. He currently works in a major project aiming reinforcing the managerial capabilities of social enterprises in Quebec (Maison de l’innovation social – MIS). His research projects focus on sustainability, social responsibility and social impact and they have been published in journals such as Journal of Management Studies, Organization, World Development, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Decision, Journal of Cleaner Production, among others.