Professor of Philophy and Director of the Institute “Empresa y Humanismo” at the University of Navarra. He is professor at Mendoza University (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay). He was visiting professor and lecturer at diverse academic institutions in USA, Europe and Latin America. He is author of nine books and more than a hundred articles.

Honorary Governor of the Bank of France. From 1987 to 2000, he was the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (FMI). Prior to that, he was Governor of the Bank of France and Chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community.

Dean of IESE Business School.  Professor of economics and general management Post-doctoral research Fellow at Harvard Business School. He has been an Associate Fellow at Harvard University, visiting scholar at the World Bank and the FMI, and Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution (Washington D.C.). He is a founding member of the European Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, member of the Commission for Transparency and Security in Markets (Aldama Commission), and member of the Spain-World Bank Committee.
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Professor in the department of managing people in organizations and director of the International Center on Work and Family. Ph.D. in Economics and Business Management and Master of Business Adminstration, IESE and B.A. in Law, University of Barcelona. Co-author of several books, such as La ambición femenina: Cómo reconciliar trabajo y familia, Emprendiendo en Femenino and Paradigmas del Liderazgo. She is also author of the book Rotación de Directivos.
She was awarded the Prize for Woman Manager of the Year 2001, presented in Spain by FEDEPE.
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Chairman of the Management Board for Carrefour Group since April 2005. Prior to that, he was CFO and Managing Director of Organization and Systems for Carrefour and joined the group's Executive Committee in April of 2001. He became Chief Financial Officer for Carrefour Spain in 1999 after holding the role of Chief Financial Officer at Pryca (subsidiary of Carrefour), which he joined in 1991, where he held the roles of Management Auditor (1991-1994), Management Auditor - Southern Europe (1994-1996) and then Management Auditor - Americas Region until 1997. He started his career with Arthur Andersen in 1987 after having studied economics.

Professor of economics at IESE. He has recently joined "La Caixa" as Deputy Director General and Head of Research. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. In the fall of 2000, he was visiting professor in the economics department of U.C. Berkeley.
He joined IESE in 1987, and since 1989 he has been a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). He is also a member of The Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (European Commission). Between September 1994 and September 1996 he was Economic Adviser to the Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels.
Some of his most recent books are (co-author) Integration of European Banking: The Way Forward CEPR, London (2005); Building a Dynamic Europe: The Key Policy Debates Cambridge University Press, (2004), and Liberalization of network industries: conflicting priorities. Telecommunications in Europe, CEPR, London (1998). 
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President & COO of BBVA since December 2001. His professional career has developed in the banking environment, and specifically with BBVA, which he joined in 1978. In 1999, he was named head of expansion in Latin America for the group’s businesses.

Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Inditex. He joined Inditex Group in June 2005. Previously, he chaired the Board of Directors of Altadis and was joint-president of this group from July 2000. He is a graduate of Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and public prosecutor.
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Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and chair of the editorial board of World Politics.  He was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Peterhouse before coming to the United States in 1986.  His books include: The German Slump:  Politics and Economics 1924 1936, Oxford, 1986 (Oxford University Press) (paperback 1987);   A German Identity 1770 1990, London 1989 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), New York 1989 (Routledge Chapman Hall); International Monetary Cooperation since Bretton Woods, New York and Washington D.C. 1996 (Oxford University Press and International Monetary Fund); Monetary and Fiscal Unification in Nineteenth Century Germany; What Can Kohl Learn from Bismarck?, Princeton 1997 (Princeton Essays in International Finance); The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression, Cambridge Mass. 2001  (Harvard University Press, translated into Chinese, German, Greek, Korean, Japanese, Spanish); The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews, New York/Cambridge, 2001 (Cambridge University Press); Europe Reborn: A History 1914-2000, (Longman/Pearson 2003).  In 2004 he was awarded the first Helmut Schmidt Prize for Transatlantic Economic History, and in 2005 the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Writing on Economics.
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Professor in the marketing department at IESE. Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, MBA, IESE and Degree in Law, University of Barcelona. His areas of specialization include manufacturer/distributor relationships, business to business and industrial marketing, distribution, market research and brands: luxury goods. His recent books: Las claves de la innovación (2005) and El consumidor maduro en España (2005).
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Second Vice-Chairman and CEO of the Grupo Santander. His professional career has developed in the banking environment since 1981.

Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and he holds a chair in international economics and European integration, and Senior Fellow at the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL). He is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a member of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s Economic Policy Analysis Group. Until January 2005, he worked for 12 years for the European Commission, first serving as Economic Advisor to the Director-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Between 2001 and 2004, he was an Economic Advisor to President Romano Prodi and Executive President of his Economic Analysis Group. He was the Chairman of the High-Level Study Group appointed by President Prodi that produced the 2003 report “An Agenda for a Growing Europe”. Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

Director of IESE Business School in Madrid and professor in the economics department. Doctor of Philosophy (economics) and Master of Arts (economics), University of Chicago, Degree in Economics, University of Barcelona and ITP, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. His areas of specialization include economics for management, monetary economics, international economics, EU economics and financial institutions.
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Director General of International Affairs and Executive Board Member of  Banco España. He holds a Master in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has taught at Stanford University, has worked at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the U.S., and acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission. He has been Chief Economist for the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the European Community, actively participating in the design of the European Monetary Union and the European Central Bank. He has served for several years as Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the European Central Bank and presently as member of the International Relations Committee of the European Central Bank, and as member of the Committee for the Global Financial Stability of the Bank of International Settlements. He is Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), based in London. He has been awarded the King Jaime I Prize in Economics. He was also named by the President of the European Commission member of the High Level Group to study the challenges facing the European Union.

Since 1990, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Shareholders' Committee, Henkel KGaA. Owner of  R. Woeste GmbH & Co. KG, a family business enterprise, since 1963. Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at Berlin Technical University. Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of IESE.

Chief Executive Officer of Ermenegildo Zegna Group, in charge of the Apparel, leather and Retailing divisions, as well as of the European and American markets. President of Agnona, the luxury ladies’ brand, owned by Zegna. Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the IESE.