UNICON, a major global consortium of business school-based executive education organizations, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award to Mónica Sacristán, Director of Executive Development at ITAM, and an MBA alumnus from the same university.

The Consortium announced that its Board of Directors decided to grant this recognition to the career of Mónica Sacristán Fanjul for her outstanding and essential contribution to executive education in Mexico and the world. In July this year, the award will be formally presented at the UNICON annual meeting. In their announcement, they pointed out that UNICON and ITAM's Directorate of Executive Development have consolidated a close relationship since their alliance as members in 2001. In addition, they highlighted that Mónica has designed, coordinated, and given lectures in various executive education programs for the Mexican subsidiaries of international companies such as Coca Cola Company, Citigroup, Novartis, and Siemens, including Mexican corporations such as Peñoles, Jumex, Grupo Nacional Provincial, Grupo Modelo, Grupo Bimbo and Grupo BAL. In addition, Sacristán served six years on the UNICON board, where she chaired the membership, research, and continuity committees.

Without a doubt, the award given by UNICON to Dr. Sacristán fills our Institute with pride for her work. We congratulate Mónica Sacristán for this recognition.