Jorge Fernández

Lecturer of Strategic Management

• PhD in Business Economics, University of Alicante
• Master’s in Strategic Studies, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• MBA, INSEAD
• Bachelor of Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University
• Bachelor of Commerce in Economics, University College of Cork

Jorge Fernández Vidal is a Managing Director at the Liechtenstein Group, a diversified holding company with operations in the agriculture & food, forestry, renewable energy and real estate sectors. He also serves as an Advisor to the Chairman of Galp and is a Board member of Green Universe Agriculture, Parelmo, N-Drip, PowerPollen, UMOA and Valle del Guadiana, and the non-profit HADEF.

In the past, Jorge has served as a Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Company, led the business transformation efforts of Galp and Abanca, worked as an investment professional at the European Investment Bank and LeapFrog Investments, and as an entrepreneur in West Africa. He has worked across a wide range of sectors (e.g., agriculture, banking, energy, forestry, retail, etc) and geographies, in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

He has been selected one of the Top 100 Spanish Economic leaders of tomorrow by Institute Choiseul in 2018 and 2019, as a QVIXOTE leader in 2019 and as a one of the 111 top talents in Spain by Nova Talent in 2021.