Nicolás Gambetta holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Valencia (Spain), where he received the Extraordinary Doctoral Award, and a Master of Business (research-based) in Accounting and Auditing from the University of Technology Sydney (Australia). He holds the Chair in Corporate Sustainability, serves as academic vice dean of the School of Administration and Social Sciences, and is director of the Business School at the Universidad ORT Uruguay, an institution where he began teaching in 2007.
He teaches courses related to sustainability, financial accounting, and auditing at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research focuses on the business sector’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with studies on the potential of publicly traded companies in Latin America to finance the SDGs and on the role of small businesses in sustainable global value chains, presented at events such as CSEAR Spain and the PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) research conference. He is a researcher with the National System of Researchers (Level I) and has received ORT awards for Excellence in Teaching in Business Graduate Programs (2012 and 2023) and for Research and Academic Production (2016 and 2019).
He actively participates in the public debate on corporate sustainability, emphasizing environmental and social risk management, the need to involve small and medium-sized enterprises, and collaboration between businesses and academia. He has supported the university’s strategy in THE Impact Rankings, in which ORT ranks as the top university in Uruguay.
His career combines research, graduate-level teaching, and academic administration, with a focus on integrating sustainability into the education of business professionals and into organizational management.