Hector Zelaya has been at Arizona State University since 2004 and currently serves as Executive Director, Global Engagement, at the School of Community Resources and Development.
Previously, Hector served as Director and, subsequently, Executive Director of Bob Ramsey Executive Education at the School of Public Affairs from 2012-2025. He was responsible for the only nationally accredited Certified Public Manager® Program in the State of Arizona, through which over 1,600 public sector managers earned the CPM designation.
Hector also led the implementation of 4 cohorts of the Executive MPA Program from 2018-2022 and led ASU's implementation of 3 U.S. Department of State Programs:
- In partnership with IREX, Hector served as academic director and led the implementation of the Leadership in Public Management Institute for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders from 2016-2025, through which we developed and served 223 professionals from 43 African countries.
- In partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Hector led the implementation of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Academic Fellows Program on Civic Engagement from 2018-2025, through which we developed and served 127 leaders from 11 Southeast Asian countries.
- In partnership with IREX, Hector led the implementation of 3 cohorts of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Professional Fellows Program from 2018-2023, which was designed for approximately 250 young business and social entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean per year.
Prior to Bob Ramsey Executive Education, Hector served in various executive education roles – 8 years at the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU, 2 years at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and 8 years at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Wharton and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from W. P. Carey.