Mauricio González
Executive Director for Goldring Institute: Latin America (Central and South America) and Europe
Mauricio González is the executive director of the Goldring Institute. He has more than 30 years of business teaching and consulting experience as well as a variety of senior administrative responsibilities at universities in the U.S. and Latin America. González specializes in globalization issues and the consciousness of modern enterprises. He served on the board of the AACSB from 2012 to 2015, and in 2012 he was a member of AACSB’s Latin American and Caribbean Council. He also served on the board of the Monterrey Digital Hub from 2018 to 2020. He was formerly dean of the School of Business for the Northern Region at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.
Xianjun Geng
Director of China Programs
Xianjun Geng is a Professor of Management Science and Freeman School Distinguished Chair in Business at the A. B. Freeman School, Tulane University. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, overseeing all aspects of both undergraduate and graduate educational programs in the Freeman School. Previously, he served as the Area Coordinator for Management Science, and as the founding Executive Director of the highly successful Master of Business Analytics program. Geng has extensive teaching experience in business analytics and information technology management at undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, and has received multiple student-voted teaching awards. Geng's research interests include pricing, supply chain management, business analytics, information security and behavioral economics. His work has appeared in Management Science (in IS, Marketing and OM departments), Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing and other academic journals. He has received multiple awards for his research. Geng currently serves as Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management. Previously he served as Associate Editor for Management Science, Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. Geng received his Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Economics and Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Tulane, he served on the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas and at University of Washington.
Lenore N. Mason
Director of Operations
Lenore Mason, the director of the Goldring Institute, joined Tulane more than 18 years ago. She has held several positions within Goldring Institute as Assistant Director of Operations and Senior Program Coordinator in the Latin American PhD Program and International Exchange and Study Abroad Programs. In her current position, she is responsible for implementing and overseeing multiple educational programs in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of New Orleans.
Auranyd (Aura) Alvarado
Senior Program Coordinator
Aura Alvarado is a senior program coordinator with the Goldring Institute of International Business. In this role, she assists international students and faculty with financial, administrative and academic needs. Prior to joining the Goldring Institute, Alvarado served as an administrative assistant, program coordinator and project manager in the Tulane Energy Institute.
Jennifer Tracy
Senior Program Coordinator
Jenny Tracy is a senior program coordinator with the Goldring Institute of International Business. She recently graduated from Tulane’s MBA program, and she looks forward to assisting students through their personal MBA journey. Prior to joining the Goldring Institute, Jenny served as an executive assistant to the Dean of Newcomb Tulane College and assistant to the Chief of General, Endocrine and Oncological Surgery here at Tulane.
To contact the Goldring Institute email Goldring.Programs@tulane.edu.
