The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration, IESA) is a private non-profit Venezuelan business school with campuses in Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia.IESA, IESA It was founded in 1965.IESA, Historia It has its own publisher, Ediciones IESA.
History IESA is considered Venezuela's leading business school, and it played a key role in the liberalization economic policy of the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989 - 1993). A number of academics from it (including Moisés Naím and Ricardo Hausmann) were appointed ministers, and the group became known as the "IESA Boys," in analogy to Chile's Chicago Boys.DiJohn, Johnathan (2009), From windfall to curse?: oil and industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the present, Penn State Press. p113
IESA is accredited by two of the three leading global business school accreditation associations: AACSB and AMBA. It was formerly also accredited by EQUIS (2008–2021). In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report the school was ranked 9th in South America.
Notable people
Alumni María Corina Machado, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Faculty Gil Yepes, Instituto professor from 1972 to 1990
See also :Category:Academic staff of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
References
External links www.iesa.edu.ve