Dr. Rogelio Garcia Contreras is a Teaching Assistant Faculty at the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation Program of the Sam M. Walton College of Business of the University of Arkansas. He holds a doctorate degree from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

His teaching experience includes public and private institutions of higher education in Mexico, China, Spain, and the United States. Before arriving to the University of Arkansas, he was an Associate Professor at the Center for International Studies of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, where he founded and directed the Social Entrepreneurship Program.

Outside Academia Dr. Garcia Contreras has extensive experience, working as a consultant, researcher, and a political and public policy analyst in both, the private and public sectors of Mexico and the United States.
Dr. Garcia Contreras has collaborated with a variety of foundations, organizations and institutions of higher education in the design and implementation of comprehensive development initiatives in places like Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Haiti, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan and the United States.

In 2015, Dr. Garcia Contreras acted as a consultant during a development and gender equality summit organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery and the Pontifical Council for Human Development, Justice and Peace. He served for three years as a member of a UNESCO Steering Committee on development and the sustainability of peace, and he has been an impact assessment consultant for ARCORES.

Dr. Garcia Contreras is a member of the Cathedra UNESCO  at Universitat Abat Oliba in Barcelona. In collaboration with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, he is part of a task force sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to promote entrepreneurship and micro-business development at the Saharaui Refugee Camps in Northern Africa.