Dr. Rajiv Maher is a specialist in social responsibility and sustainability.
In addition to his role as leader of the Social Innovation and Sustainability Research Group, he is a professor and researcher in the Department of Strategy and Leadership at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Rajiv Maher's research specializes in the impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility practices since 2007, and more recently also on Business and Human Rights. As a consultant, he has experience at the IFC (International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group focused exclusively on the private sector). Within the extractive industry, he has fieldwork experience in mining communities in Chile, Brazil, and Peru, as well as in other natural resource sectors in the same countries, including Guatemala. Through academic research, Maher seeks to empirically assess the impact and effectiveness of social responsibility practices and strategies in various communities in Latin America. He has published several articles (both academic and non-academic) on this topic.