Jordi Vives Gabriel
Publications
Main Focuses
Business Ethics
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business & Human Rights
Fields of research
Symbolic reparations for corporate human rights wrongs
Organizations dealing with the past
Transitional Justice
Education
- PhD in Business Ethics, University of St Gallen (Switzerland)
- MA in Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
- BA in Business Administration, Esade Business School (Spain)
Professional Career
Jordi started his professional career in the private sector working for Deloitte and Hewlett Packard. As a scholar Jordi served as manager of the oikos Case Writing Competition between 2012 and 2015. Jordi is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Business Ethics (IWE). Either as member of the IWE or as an independent consultant, Jordi participated in several research mandates for both public and private organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Catalan Agency for Cooperation and Development among others.
Teaching Activities
Jordi’s
teaching activities cover the following areas:
- Business Ethics
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Business & Human Rights
- Leadership
Jordi
teaches regularly at the University of St Gallen, Esade Business School, and
Eada Business School at undergrad and master level programs.
Projects
Jordi leads the project “Corporate symbolic reparations in transitional justice contexts. Case studies from Colombia, Germany and South Africa.” This project is funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies and is developed in collaboration with Swisspeace- University of Basel (Switzerland), the Centro Regional de Empresas y Emprendimientos Responsables (Colombia), and the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa). More information about the project can be found here.
Prior to this project, Jordi led the project entitled “Symbolic Forms of Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Impact in Colombia’s Post-peace Agreement Context”. The project was funded by the Leading House for the Latin American Region and the Institute for Business Ethics. More information about the project can be found here.
Awards
Jordi’s research received the generous support of the oikos PhD Fellowship, the SNF DocMobility, the One Year Research Merger Grant granted by the Leading House for the Latin American Region. In July 2019, Jordi’s project entitled “Corporate symbolic reparations in transitional justice contexts. Case studies from Colombia, Germany and South Africa”was awarded with a two years research fund by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). In 2014 Jordi was awarded The Society for Business Ethics Founders' Award. This award is given to promising PhD students in the field of business ethics.