Dusya Vera received her Ph.D. in Business Administration (Strategic Management) from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. She earned a Computer Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic University of Guayaquil and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She took part in management seminars at the Martin Luther Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, she worked in Ecuador for such organizations as the Guayaquil Stock Exchange, the Pacific Bank, and Consulconti Consulting.

Dr. Vera has been the recipient of several research and teaching awards. Dr. Vera’s research interests and expertise are in the areas of improvisation, organizational learning, and strategic leadership. Her research has been published in journals and books such as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, The Leadership Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research and the Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, among others. Dr. Vera has conducted and presented her research in the United States, Canada, England, Spain, Portugal, and several countries in Latin America. In addition, Dr. Vera has teaching experience in strategic management at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels in the United States and in international locations including Ecuador, Colombia, and Canada.