President

As president of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., guides a truly global learning network with operations in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Russia. The school is regarded as the world’s leading institution in the education of global managers, holding the No. 1 ranking in the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters.

Dr. Cabrera, who is a citizen of Spain, is a world-renowned global leader and management educator whose work and expertise has been recognized and tapped by top global organizations including the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. The World Economic Forum has named Dr. Cabrera a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and appointed him to the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders. Along with being a regular attendee of the World Economic Forum held Davos each year, Dr. Cabrera has been named the Founding Chair of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Promoting Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Cabrera presently serves as a senior adviser to the UN Global Compact Office
on Academic Affairs. In that role, he chaired a taskforce to develop the “Principles
for Responsible Management Education,” which serve to strengthen the role of
business schools in promoting global corporate citizenship. The taskforce presented
the principles at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July 2007. He also plays
a key role in designing the Global Compact Academic Network’s strategy, serves as
a Global Compact ambassador to academic organizations, and helps promote its
activities around the world and as they relate to education forums like the World
Economic Forum.

An outspoken advocate of corporate social responsibility and managerial
professionalism, and in 2008 received the prestigious honor of being named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute. He is a frequent speaker at prestigious international forums. His viewpoints have been featured by the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, CNN International, CNN Español and a number of other regional and international media.

Dr. Cabrera is the former dean of the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe’s leading
business schools, and in 2004 was showcased by BusinessWeek as one of 25
“Stars of Europe.”

He is an active member, a current or past board member of several international
organizations including AACSB International, EFMD-EQUIS, the UN Global
Compact, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, the Georgia Institute of
Technology, ESSEC, the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Future Trends Forum
in Madrid.

Dr. Cabrera earned his Ph.D. and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which
he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BS and MS in Engineering from Madrid
Polytechnical University, Spain’s premier Engineering school.