Francisco Javier Carrillo

Javier is passionate about knowledge as a leverage to the human condition. In 1989 he became a Professor of Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Development at Tecnológico de Monterrey (www.itesm.edu) where he founded the Center for Knowledge Systems (www.knowledgesystems.org) and where he chairs since 2014 the Strategic Research Group on Knowledge Societies. He has developed the Capital Systems Framework as a model of integrated tangible and intangible value. He is founder and President of the World Capital Institute (www.worldcapitalinstitute.org) and the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Sistemas de Conocimiento (www.iberoamericana.org) as well as co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Based Development. His research interests include knowledge cities, capital systems and knowledge markets. He strives to live in a new economic culture that balances what truly matters to people.