Mauro Guillén

Mauro F. Guillén (born 1964) is a Spanish/American sociologist, political economist, management educator, Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, and Director of the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Guillén graduated in 1987 from the University of Oviedo in his native Spain with a BA degree in Political Economy and Business Management. He came to the United States in 1987 to pursue a PhD in Sociology, sponsored by the Bank of Spain and the Fulbright Program. He graduated from Yale University in 1992.

During his time at Yale, he also completed the requirements for the doctoral program in Political Economy at the University of Oviedo, which awarded him a Doctorate in 1991 after defending a thesis on health inequalities in Spain. At Yale, he wrote his dissertation under the direction of sociologists Charles Perrow, Paul DiMaggio, and Juan J. Linz, which later became his book, Models of Management (University of Chicago Press, 1994).

His professors Jesús M. de Miguel and Alvaro Cuervo were his earliest intellectual mentors. Aside from his advisors, he considers the cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz and the political economist Albert Hirschman to be his most important intellectual influences, whom he met while a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

His first faculty appointment was at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught between 1992 and 1996. He moved to the Wharton School in 1996 following his wife, Sandra Suárez, who took that year a faculty position at Temple University. At the Wharton School, Guillén was promoted from assistant to associate professor with tenure in 2000, and from associate professor to full professor in 2003. He was appointed as Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor in International Management that same year, a chair established in honor of the chemist who founded the Fortune 500 semiconductor company Vishay Intertechnology. He was certified by the Spanish Education Ministry as a Full Professor (Catedrático) in 2010.

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