Dr Juan Carlos Mondragon Quintana
BSc, MPP, MPA, PhD, PGCAPP
Expertise
Designing international business education that prepares students to understand and responsibly shape business’s role in society, informed by research on multinationals, data capitalism, AI governance and the common good.
Current positions
Lecturer in International Business Policy
University of Bristol Business School
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Biography
He holds a PhD in Global Political Economy from Bristol, a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was an Edward S. Mason Fellow, and a Master’s in Comparative Public Policy from FLACSO Mexico.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, editor of the International Journal of Technology Management and Sustainable Development, and External Examiner for the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He holds fellowships at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Angelicum, and at the Instituto Promotor del Bien Común (UPAEP, Mexico), and is Adjunct Professor at Universidad de las Américas Puebla. He was previously a Fellow of the Economy of Francesco Academy. Beyond the University, he serves as a Foundation Governor of St Bede’s Catholic College, Bristol.
Research interests
Juan Carlos’s research asks how firms, markets and institutions can serve the common good. It follows three strands:
- Multinational enterprises and social purpose: how social purpose can be identified and measured in multinationals, and how management education shapes responsible business practice.
- Data capitalism and AI governance: the ethical and policy challenges of platform business models, first developed as a Fellow of the Economy of Francesco Academy, and relational approaches to governing AI, the focus of his fellowship at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Angelicum.
- Innovation, competition and development: how local actors build innovation systems in emerging economies, the subject of his monograph Innovation Systems from Below (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026), and the role of competition policy in sustaining democratic market economies.
Much of this work is grounded in Latin America. Through the Data Research, Access and Governance Network (DRAGoN), he works with central banks and statistics offices across the region on data governance, and he has advised on these questions for the Inter-American Development Bank.
Please note that Juan Carlos is not accepting PhD students at the moment.
Publications
Selected publications
04/02/2026Innovation Systems from Below: An Actor-Centred Approach
Innovation Systems from Below
Identifying Social Purpose in Multinational Enterprises: A Measurement Tool - Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
The Oxford Handbook of Social Purpose
Is sustainable management education contributing to gender equality?
The International Journal of Management Education
Recent publications
02/04/2026Identifying Social Purpose in Multinational Enterprises: A Measurement Tool - Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
The Oxford Handbook of Social Purpose
Identifying Social Purpose in Multinational Enterprises: International Association of Business and Society (IABS)
When Competition Fails, Democracies Falter: International Schumpeter Society Conference
Data Capitalism and the Common Good: At the Roots of Economic Ethics
Innovation Systems from Below: An Actor-Centred Approach
Innovation Systems from Below
Thesis
Innovation systems, strategic coupling and bridge institutions in Latin America
Supervisors
Award date
06/12/2022
Teaching
As Programme Director, he is leading a programme review that embeds sustainability, digital transformation and employer engagement across the curriculum, aligned with the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
