Antonio Subirà
Director of the Center
 
Antoni Subirà has recently become a became a full-time member of the faculty of IESE Business School, where he has taught in other capacities for many years. He holds a doctorate in Industrial Engineering from the E.T.S.I.I. Terrassa and a Master of Sciences in Industrial Management from the  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Catalan Government until November 2002. Recently, he has  also served as a consultant for various companies including Cepsa, Nestlé, IBM and ACESA.

Dr. Subirá is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI) and of the foundation Clusters and Competitiveness, and Member of the Advisory Board of Mercapital and Air Products. As Minister of Industry and Energy, Trade and Tourism, he has been a member of numerous Boards, including Presidency of the COPCA, Institut Català de Consum, Institut Català de Tecnologia, Turisme de Catalunya, Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos de la Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Catalana d'Iniciatives, the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade (ICEX), and Fira Internacional de Barcelona, Mercapital. He has received the Order of the Rising Sun with Golden Rays and Neck Ribbon award.

María Luisa Blazquez
Research Associate
MLBlazquez@iese.edu

Alessandro Cembalo 
Research Assistant
ACembalo@iese.edu

Contact
icc@iese.edu