Professional Affiliation

President, Lexington Group

Expert Bio

Richard Wells is President of The Lexington Group, a company that consults to senior management on topics related to “sustainable competitiveness”—long-term, socially and environmentally sustainable national and business competitiveness. He has consulted to major and startup companies in the U.S and Latin America, the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank, business organizations including Mexico ́s Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, The Conference Board and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as well as to national and state government agencies. Since 2012, he has taught at Mexico ́s EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey where he has taught courses on “Leadership for Sustainability” and “Scenarios for Innovation” as well as executive education courses in innovation and strategy. He is recently the author of a monograph, Mexico Facing the Future, published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Mexico Institute that examines the challenges Mexico faces in a future knowledge economy. He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Master of Science in Management (MBA) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.