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Javier Hernandez


    Associate
javier.hernandez@fsg.org

Overview

Javier brings experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors to FSG.

Role at FSG

Since joining FSG, Javier has worked with a client on developing a new private-public partnership which will have an impact on the Texas Post Secondary Education arena. He has been responsible for translating data, information and research to be able to formulate conclusions which could lead our client and its collaborators to create a huge social impact of higher education in Texas.

Before FSG

Javier has previously worked with nonprofit organizations in India and China. He designed a business-startup toolkit for entrepreneurs in rural areas of China. He developed vocational and business training curriculums for handicapped Indian micro lenders to use when receiving microloans to start wheelchair-enabled businesses. Javier has helped formulate a marketing strategy for a green building organization based out of Boston, MA. He has also worked for a tech company in the UK, as well as a chemicals company in Shanghai, China.

Education

  • MIT, BS in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Management

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Intermediate Chinese

On Working at FSG

"I’m passionate about being able to combine the high level thinking, problem solving and knowledge which FSG fosters to be able to have a measurable impact on a number of personal areas of interest which include global development. I’m very new to FSG, but I’ve already realized that I have so much to learn but that I am at the perfect place to do so because I am surrounded by great teachers!"

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