Dr Ramona Blanes
- Senior Lecturer, Master of Global Business and MBA-MSc Euro-Asian Programme Director (Management)
telephone:
0141 330 4188
email:
Ramona.Blanes@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Business School, Level 6, Room 631, East Quadrangle, Gilbert Scott Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Biography
Ramona has more than 20 years of experience working in senior positions in financial services and management consultancy organisations. She has worked in Asia and Europe, and with clients and colleagues in Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East.
Ramona has a MBA specialising in Islamic Banking and Finance. Her PhD research explored the concept of Public Value and the Public Sector Reforms through the lens of Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Research interests
Ramona is a member of the Services and Operations Management research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Business ethics
- Financial services and technologies
- Public value
- Public sector reform
- Reverse innovation
Grants
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2022: “Key Entrepreneurial Cognitive Education & Knowledge Advancement Project: A Network” (Funded by British Council Malaysia: £55,000)
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2019: “Ethnicity and everyday Life: A case study of Chinese Kelantanese”. (Funded by University Sains Malaysia: £4,000)
- 2018: “Strategies of China’s EMNEs for Reverse Innovation”. (Funded by Liverpool John Moores University: £3,000)
Supervision
Ramona is interested in supervising projects in the following areas:
- Public value and public sector reforms
- Alternative finance including FinTech
- Reverse innovation
- Marginalised community
- Cui, Sichang
Explore the challenges of Green Finance and its Fintech solutions and possible legal issues that arise in the UK and China - Syzdykov, Abylay
The role of key stakeholders of Fintech ecosystem.
Teaching
- Customer relationship management
- FinTech: Alternative finance
- Internationalisation strategies
- Managing public sector transformation
- Managing strategic change
Additional information
Awards
- Citigroup Global Quality Award 2002
- Citibank Global Relationship Award (Merrill Lynch) 1998
- Citibank Global Relationship Award (Nomura) 1997