Women, Philosophy and Management

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño

IE University

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño has played a leading role in business education over the past two decades and actively contributes in different forums and networks to foster innovation and development in higher education. He was portrayed by the Financial Times as “one of the most significant figures in promoting European business schools internationally”.

He is the past Chairman of AACSB and also serves on the boards of Renmin University Business School (China), Antai Business School (Jiao Tong University, China), LUISS Business School (Italy), Mazars University (France) and FGV-EASP Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He has also served as member on the Board of EFMD and the Awarding Body of EQUIS.

Iñiguez is also the Vice-Chairman of Financial Times/IE Business School Corporate Learning Alliance, a leading provider of custom education programs for companies worldwide. He is the author of “The Learning Curve: How Business Schools Are Reinventing Education” (2011) and “Cosmopolitan Managers: Executive Education That Works” (2016), as well as co-editor of the forthcoming book “Business Despite Borders: Companies in the Age of Populist Anti-Globalization” (2018), all published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Iñiguez is a regular speaker at international conferences. He is one of the 500 Global LinkedIn Influencers, and frequently contributes in different journals and media on higher education and executive development.

Iñiguez is Professor of Strategic Management. He holds a Degree in Law, a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy and Jurisprudence (Complutense University, Spain) and an MBA from IE Business School. He was a Recognized Student at the University of Oxford, UK.

María Benjumea

South Summit

Miembro del:

Consejo de administración de PROSEGUR CASH desde 2017

Lilly European Advisory board, desde 2018

Consejo Asesor del Grupo Godó, desde 2018

Consejo Asesor de Salesforce, desde 2018

Consejo Asesor de EY, del 2018 al 2019

Consejo Asesor de la Asociación Española de Directores de Recursos Humanos desde 2019

Patronato de la Fundación Everis, desde 2019

Vicepresidente del Círculo de Empresarios de 2012 a 2015

Medalla de Oro al Mérito en el Trabajo en 2016

Premio del Senado a la Trayectoria Profesional en 2019



Desde los inicios de su carrera profesional, María Benjumea siempre ha estado ligada con el desarrollo de proyectos propios. En 1979 abrió Taller de Arte; continuó con la creación de Círculo de Progreso en 1982, empresa que a partir de 1994 se convirtió en Infoempleo, de la que fue CEO hasta su venta en 2009, y presidente hasta 2012 que funda Spain Startup.

Spain Startup nace en 2012 como respuesta a la crisis económica y con la convicción de que el ecosistema de innovación y startups son el motor clave del desarrollo económico de esta nueva era.

En 2014, lanza South Summit como la Plataforma Global de conexión con foco en Innovación, transformación y negocio de los diferentes actores económicos: startups, corporaciones e inversores. En su última edición de 2019 reunió a más de 20.000 asistentes, 1.100 inversores, más de 6.500 startups y más de 6.700 miembros de corporaciones. Además de Madrid, su buque insignia, South Summit tiene ediciones en Colombia, México y desde 2019 comenzó la verticalización en sectores como Smart Mobility y Health & Well-being, posicionando otras ciudades de la envergadura de Málaga o Valencia.

Michelle Raymond

Public speaker, international recording artist, and diversity and inclusion consultant

Michelle Raymond is a public speaker, international recording artist, and diversity and inclusion consultant. She is an International MBA alumna of IE Business School, with over 10 years professional work experience in diversity and inclusion (D&I) and financial services.

Currently, Michelle is a Master's candidate in Global Entertainment and Music Business at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain, and the 2019-2020 recipient of the Outstanding Women Scholarship and mentorship program in partnership with Yvette Noel-Schure, the co-founder of Schure Media Group and Beyonce's publicist.

She is a demonstrated leader and Global D&I consultant for multinational corporations and higher education institutions in North America and Europe, including Amazon and GE Renewables, and has been profiled in interviews with Poets & Quants and Financial Times. Michi is the former director of IE University's annual LGBT@Work Conference, the third-largest LGBTQI* workplace inclusion conference organized by a business school in the world. She has spoken and performed for numerous major diversity events around the globe including World Pride Summit, TEDx Madrid, Capitol Pride USA and World Pride Madrid. She is the recipient of the 2016 McKinsey & Co. LGBT Leadership Award (Europe), and Board Member and Chief Technology Officer to Wuha Sira Initiative, a non-profit organization which provides educational scholarships for women and clean water access in Dilla, Ethiopia.

Michelle is an award-winning international indie musician, performing under the stage name, Michi, and has opened for numerous Grammy Award-Winning pop stars at international pride festivals including Miley Cyrus, DJ Marshmello, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rita Ora, Kelly Rowland, and Meghan Trainor, for crowds of over 250,000 people. In 2018, Michi was a Top-90 Qualifier in Madrid's 2018 television music competition program "The Voice," out of 16,000 applicants and is ranked #1 on Spain’s ReverbNation Indie Music Charts.

María José Ferrari

IE University

María José Ferrari is the Academic Head of the Arts and Humanities Division at IE University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University, where she wrote a dissertation on Comparative Literature and Intellectual History. She has more than 15 years of teaching experience both in the US and in Spain, where she has been the recipient of several teaching awards. She has collaborated both as a researcher and educator with many cultural institutions such as the European Commission, the Real Instituto Elcano, the British Council, or the Instituto Cervantes.

Celia de Anca

IE Center for Diversity

Dr. Celia de Anca is currently the Director of  Scief (Saudi Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finances) and the Center for Diversity at IE University, where she is also a  professor of Diversity and Islamic Finance.  She was previously the Director of Corporate Programmes at the Euro-Arab Management School (EAMS), Granada. She has also worked for the Fundación Cooperación Internacional y Promoción Ibero-América Europa. (CIPIE) and at the International Division of  Banco de Santander. She has a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Boston), and from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She holds a degree and PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with a comparative thesis on Islamic, ethical/ecological investment funds and on the London Market.

She is the Author of Beyond Tribalism, Palgrave McMillan 2012, and  co-author of the Managing Diversity in the Global Organization. Macmillan 2007. She had articles published in specialised journals, in addition to regular articles in the press.   She was an external advisor of the Merrill Lynch’s Diversity & Inclusion Council up to 2009. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of IE Business School from 2006 to 2016. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of InverCaixa’ s Ethics Fund, Spain  and a member of the International Scientific Committee of the University Euromed in Marseille, France.  Member of the FAA Accreditation Panel for Islamic Finance  (Malaysia) since 2017.

She was named female executive of 2008 by the Business Women’s Association of Madrid. (ASEME) Her work is regularly cited by the most influential thinkers, among them; Zigmunt Bauman in his final book, Retrotopia . Her work received numerous distinctions, as the 2019 Highly Commended Award for the paper Spanish Women's Career Inhibitors 2007-2017, by Literati Emerald Publishing, and, the best article of Corporate Governance: An International Review in 2016. Dr. de Anca is listed among the 2013 thinkers50 ranking of global management scholars http://www.thinkers50.com/biographies/celia-de-anca/. Ms. de Anca is fluent in Spanish, English, French and Arabic.