Gonzalo Freixes, associate dean of the Fully Employed M.B.A. (EMBA) Programs and faculty director of the Applied Management Research Program at UCLA Anderson School, has received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC).
The award recognizes contributions to EMBAC and to EMBA programs worldwide, including efforts to assist with other programs, share best practices and raise the quality of EMBA programs. Freixes served on the EMBAC board of trustees, including terms as chair and treasurer.
“I am very honored. It’s a very big recognition and I’m honored to be thought worthy by my peers,” Freixes said.
Freixes began his career as a lawyer who later transitioned to higher education as a faculty member. He now teaches business law, international business law, business ethics, corporate and individual taxation, and real estate law and taxation at Anderson and in the Undergraduate Management Accounting Minor Program at UCLA. He was also the recipient of the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award from the UCLA Anderson faculty, as well as the Fully Employed MBA class Outstanding Teaching Award.
