What is SEKN / Governance

The network has created a Leadership Council consisting of the SEKN leaders from each of the member schools to serve as the final decision-making body for SEKN. The full Leadership Council has responsibility for establishing SEKN's strategy, evaluating the performance of the network and its members, and determining its membership.

The  management of the Network utilizes a distributed  leadership approach in which  the responsibility for the four key functions of the Network (Network Coordination, Knowledge Generation, Knowledge Dissemination, and Teaching) is assigned to specific leaders.

To ensure continuity, shared knowledge, and smooth transitions, we have instituted a structure of co-leadership in which each of four key network functions are the responsibility of two individuals, an incumbent who had performed this function previously and the successor who will be the prime leader in the next cycle with another successor.

This distributed leadership model  deviates from the model commonly used in networks that concentrates responsibility and power in a secretariat. Our values of shared responsibility call forth our different approach. The leaders meet as a whole at each workshop to deal with specified network issues. Between these meetings the leaders communicate virtually via e-mail and hold virtual discussions of selected issues via the SEKN website.   Ad hoc committees are utilized to take on specific tasks that arise periocially.

The current co-leaders for each of the Network functions are:

Representatives from Harvard Business School, Gustavo Herrero , Director of the HBS Latin American Research Center, Professor Michael Chu , Senior Researcher Ezequiel Reficco are also members of the Leadership Council.  The Executive Secretary in charge of Network administration is Hugo Enrique Navarro M..  A representative from the AVINA Foundation, Nathalia Mesa, also participates in the Leadership Council meetings.