Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes Guzman

Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes Guzmán, a Ph.D. student at the Queensland University of Technology where her research project is focused on incentive female entrepreneurship in Bio-MedTech. She has a master’s degree in Marketing Management and a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Guadalajara. She was a professor at the University of Guadalajara (CUCEA) and a tutor at Griffith University. She participated in programs of entrepreneurship from Boston University and Arizona State University and QUT.

As a woman entrepreneur, Nathalie is the CEO and co-founder of the brand “Atellier Organic”. Also, she founded “EVA ACADEMY” which focuses on helping women become entrepreneurs in vulnerable sectors, with the support of grants from the US Department, IREX, and Arizona State University. With Atellier Organic she was a finalist in the category of Creative Industries in ‘TIC Jalisco 2021″ by Young Americas Business Trust (YBAT) and the Organization of American States (OAS). She won the ‘Women and Business Contest ” at the Pacific Trade Show 2019 in Toronto. She was selected as a fellow in the program “Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative 2020-2021” by the USA Department and IREX which select emerging entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs with the greatest potential in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Invited by “Young Americas Business Trust (YBAT) and Organization of American States (OEA) to IX Summit of the Americas as entrepreneurship delegate.

As an academic, she was selected to participate as an entrepreneurial professor in the Santander X Entrepreneurship Educator’s (SEE) Program by Santander and OXENTIA (Oxford University Global Innovation Consultancy) presenting a special program that she developed at the university focused on incentive entrepreneurship in young university students. Selected “2021 IMF Youth Fellow” by the International Monetary Fund. Finalist in “Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021” in the category of Future Learning. Finalist in the 4th edition of the “Inter-American Prize in Innovative Educational Models in Higher Education” (MEIN-2022 Award).

With the project of Women Entrepreneurship in Bio-MedTech part of QUT, Monash University, and ARC CTET, have participated in “Youth Solutions Program 2022”, finalist in “University Startup World Cup 2022”, selected by the “Queens Commonwealth Trust Network”, winner of the audience awards 2023 in Falling Walls Brisbane and presented in the Harvard College Project for Asia and International Relations 2024 at Harvard University.

As a Mentor in international NGOs with a base in the USA, focuses on incentives for women’s entrepreneurship.

As a researcher, she has published articles and book chapters in international index magazines, and currently, she is an associate editor in an International Journal that is indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science. And also, a member of SNI CONACYT (The SNI recognition is granted through peer evaluation and consists of granting the appointment of a researcher, this distinction symbolizes the quality and prestige of scientific and technological contributions and innovations)