Josep Tàpies
Professor of General Management and Financial Management, holder of the Family-Owned Business Chair

Professor Tàpies gained a doctorate in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and an MBA at ESADE. He specializes in family-owned businesses and business relationships in banking, and has worked in a number of different business schools in both Europe and Latin America, including AESE in Portugal, IDE in Ecuador, PAD-University of Piura in Peru, ISE in Brazil, IAE in Argentina, ESE in Chile, and INALDE in Colombia. He has also written many books and articles on the transfer of inter-generational knowledge, merger and acquisitions processes involving family-owned businesses and management buy-outs. 

Joan de Dou
Professor of the Management of People in Organizations

Joan de Dou graduated in medicine from the University of Navarra and qualified in Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He specializes in individual people management and its impact on both the family and the business environment. Professor Dou has developed theories to explain why business families display exactly the same organizational relationships as can be found in all kinds of organizations.

Heinrich Liechtenstein
Assistant Professor of Financial Management

With a degree in Business and Economic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Graz and a doctorate in Business and Economic Sciences from the University of Vienna, Professor Liechtenstein is an expert in the creation and management of resources and the development of ownership strategies. He contributes actively to the Chair, researching the management and conservation of resources in family-owned business around the world.

Alfonso Chiner   
Lecturer of Strategic Management  

Alfonso Chiner is responsible for the concept of the family balance sheet, which refers to a combination of financial and emotional assets that require effective management in order to ensure success for the business and harmony within the family. In his doctoral thesis Chiner researched the subject of the family protocol

Enrique Mozo
Lecturer of Strategic Management

Having qualified as an Advanced Forestry Engineer and gained his MBA at IESE, Enrique Mozo has had more than twenty years’ experience as a non-family director of a family business. Since 1990 he has written a number of technical papers and cases for IESE, and has also published articles in books and magazines on his specialist subject of the family-owned business. He has spoken at many conferences and taught courses and seminars for all kinds of organizations in both the public and private sector.

Lucía Ceja Barba
Research Assistant

Lucía Ceja obtained her BSc in Psychology from the University of Nottingham in the UK. She also studied and MSc in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Institute of Work Health and Organizations, University of Nottingham. Lucia is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. She has collaborated with Gallup Organization in Nebraska, U.S.A. conducting research on Positive Organizational Psychology. Lucia has been working as a research assistant with IESE's Family-Owned Business Chair since January 2008.  She aids in giving organizational form to the projects taken on by the chair and also contributes to the preparation of technical reports and academic articles. Lucía helps the coordination of family business conferences and some other activities organized by the Chair.

María Fernández Moya
Research Assistant

A graduate in Economics and Business Administration from the University Pontificia of Comillas (ICADE).  María has been the financial director of the Valle foundation (2000-2006). She is currently a PhD candidate in Economic History at the University Complutense of Madrid. She has participated in several research projects worldwide and has collaborated in the department of Applied Economics at the University Complutense in Madrid. María has been working as a research assistant with IESE´s Family Business Chair since May 2007, working in a study looking at the longevity of the Spanish Family Firms, analysing the strategies and survival of the long lived Family Firms in Spain and all over the world.