Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño is the President of IE University and Professor of Strategic Management, and a recognized influencer in global higher education. He was the first recipient (2019) of the Founders Award by Thinkers50, the prestigious global ranking of thoughtful leaders in Management. As former Dean of IE Business School he has played a leading role in business education. He was portrayed by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally”. He was the first European appointed as “Dean of the Year” byPoets & Quants (2017).Iñiguez is one of the founders and board member of Headspring, a joint venture between IE Business School and the Financial Times, offering custom programs for companies. He also serves on the boards of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development), Renmin University Business School (China), Antai Business School (Jiao Tong University, China), LUISS Business School (Italy), Mazars University (France), FGV-EASP Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil), and King Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia). He was the first European to become Chair of the Board of AACSB, the global association of business schools.He is the author of The Learning Curve (2011), Cosmopolitan Managers (2016), and In An Ideal Business (2020), and co-editor of Business Despite Borders (2018), and “Executive Education After The Pandemic. (2021), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.Iniguez is a regular speaker at international conferences and frequently contributes in different journals and media on higher education and executive development. He is one of the 500 Global LinkedIn Influencers and in 2019 has been recognized as the leading Spanish influencer in Management.
