Professor of Art
Associate Professor of Public Administration
John J. Rivera is an executive coach, consultant, and professor with more than 15 years of diverse professional, executive, and academic experience. He is a tenured associate professor of public administration with the University of Guam's School of Business & Public Administration, is the Master of Public Administration program director, and is co-founder and director for the Regional Center for Public Policy.
Rivera's expertise and forte is in human capital innovation through agile leadership transformation and organizational development -- specializing in emotional intelligence, personality type, and strategic talent capacity building. Throughout Guam and the region, Rivera has worked with a diverse array of companies from startups to global brands, federal, and public sector to nonprofits. His skill sets are complemented by some of the most prominent talent developmental assessments in the market today. He is Guam's first and only MBTI™ Master Practitioner and MBTI™ Certified Step III Practitioner, Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile (EMP) Founding Practitioner, the first Certified Manager (CM) Certified Instructor, and was among the first Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i) certified practitioners in Guam.
Assistant Professor / Advanced Education & Research Services
Dr. Rivera, a UOG alumna, first joined the University of Guam as an adjunct professor in 2002. She most recently served as an ESL Coordinator/Teacher for the Guam Department of Education for over 24 years. She now serves as the Interim Program Chair for the Reading Master’s Program. She is Past President of the Guam Council of the International Literacy Association (ILA), Guam Public Library System Board Member, D204 Lions Clubs International Reading Action Program Chair, USCG Auxiliary District 14 Division Staff Officer for Public Education, former AmeriCorps volunteer, past Chair and member of the Guam Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC), member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), lifetime member of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), member of Ta Tuge’ Mo’na writing organization, as well as the webmaster for the Guam ILA, USCG Auxiliary Guam Flotilla, Pacific Islands Bilingual Bicultural Association (PIBBA), UOG-SOE Alumni Association, Ginen I Hila I Maga' Taotao Siha Association, Guam Nikkei Association, and Guahan Isan Famagu’on Lions Club. Dr. Rivera holds a Guahan Commission for Educator Certification as a MASTER EDUCATOR in the following specializations: Early Childhood Pre K-2, Elementary Education K-5. Reading K-12, and ESL K-12.
Extension Assistant II, Community Nutrition Education Program - EFNEP
Program Coordinator IV
Interim Dean
Personnel Specialist I
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Senior Research Associate (Marine Microbiologist)
Professor of Economics
Dr. Maria Claret M. Ruane is a tenured professor of economics at the University of Guam within the School of Business & Public Administration. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from San Jose State University (Calif.) and a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Riverside.
She has previously served as the resident development economist for the University of Guam Pacific Center for Economic Initiatives and also as the resident development economist and research contributor/supervisor for the UOG Regional Center for Public Policy.
She has 29 years of experience in international macroeconomic development and is trained in quantitative approach to analyze available data and, when necessary, design methodologies to address limitations in data.
Dr. Ruane has written several socio-economic studies at regional, national, and international levels, including:
RCPP’s "Guam Economic Report" for 2018 and 2019
“Factors that Explain Corruption in the 50 States of the United States of America: A Regression Analysis,” published in the double-blind, peer-reviewed, internationally circulated journal Asia Pacific Business and Economics Research Perspectives
A 20-equation simulation model to analyze the effect of development aid on a recipient economy.
Her other work includes the generation and analysis of much-needed economic and business indicators and analysis in Guam, including:
consumer and business confidence survey
corruption perception
buying local behavior
local spending multiplier
effect of exchange rate changes on tourist arrivals to Guam
local farmer and village residents surveys in the context of the One Village-One Product approach to Guam’s economic development.
She believes that research is a search for the truth and aims at developing local capacity in Guam to produce ethical, relevant, and impactful economic research and analysis.