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Mon, Mar 2, 2020
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM (GMT+1)
SERRANO, 105
IE Madrid Campus
Calle de Serrano, 105, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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Join us this week in celebrating our uniqueness, as well as our differences. Discover how the fusion of cultures is a defining factor in how we as a community enrich and impact our society. Opening by Celia de Anca, Director of IE Women Initiative.
A conversation between Diego del Alcázar Benjumea, Executive Vice President of IE, with Cecilia Xu, Bidalgo Country Manager for Greater China Region, IE Business School EMBA and member of the IE International Women's Board.
“Where we are and where we want to be?” A round table with the participants Patricia Gabaldón, IE Professor; Mar Hurtado de Mendoza, VP Global Recruitment & Marketing, and José Esteves, Associate Dean for International MBA and Tech MBA programs. Moderated by Celia de Anca, Director of IE Women Initiative.
Our Dean of School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University, Susana Malcorra, will close the inauguration ceremony with some words on women leadership.
During the opening Zapiens, an IE Rockets winner App & Chatbot solution, will be launched as a funny and easy way to train students, professors and staff about women´s achievements and women at IE. In collaboration with Cartier Spain and IE Learning Innovation Dept.
A conversation between Diego del Alcázar Benjumea, Executive Vice President of IE, with Cecilia Xu, Bidalgo Country Manager for Greater China Region, IE Business School EMBA and member of the IE International Women's Board.
“Where we are and where we want to be?” A round table with the participants Patricia Gabaldón, IE Professor; Mar Hurtado de Mendoza, VP Global Recruitment & Marketing, and José Esteves, Associate Dean for International MBA and Tech MBA programs. Moderated by Celia de Anca, Director of IE Women Initiative.
Our Dean of School of Global and Public Affairs at IE University, Susana Malcorra, will close the inauguration ceremony with some words on women leadership.
During the opening Zapiens, an IE Rockets winner App & Chatbot solution, will be launched as a funny and easy way to train students, professors and staff about women´s achievements and women at IE. In collaboration with Cartier Spain and IE Learning Innovation Dept.
Where
SERRANO, 105
IE Madrid Campus
Calle de Serrano, 105, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Speakers
Diego del Alcázar Benjumea
IE Business School & IE University
Diego del Alcázar Benjumea is Executive Vice President of IE Business School & IE University and sits on its Board of Directors. Diego plays a key role in the strategic vision and the general management of the institution, highly focused on promoting the innovation strategy and its execution. He is the driver of IE’s digital transformation, leading IE’s technological immersion.
In late 2014, Diego joined the board of FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance (FT|IE CLA), a joint venture created by IE Business School and the Financial Times Group to design and implement customized education for companies.
He is also the co-founder and member of the board of The South Summit, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation conferences. He has also previous experience as consultant at Bain & Company and he co-founded Step Up Capital, a vehicle to identify, invest, and manage business opportunities.
In 2017 he was awarded with the David Rockefeller Fellowship granting his participation in the Trilateral Commission in plenary and regional meetings for a term of three years (www.trilateral.org).
Diego holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a double degree in Law and Business Administration from Madrid’s Complutense University.
His areas of expertise are Business Education, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Digital Transformation, Advanced Technologies, Government of Change and Energy Efficiency, among others.
In late 2014, Diego joined the board of FT|IE Corporate Learning Alliance (FT|IE CLA), a joint venture created by IE Business School and the Financial Times Group to design and implement customized education for companies.
He is also the co-founder and member of the board of The South Summit, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation conferences. He has also previous experience as consultant at Bain & Company and he co-founded Step Up Capital, a vehicle to identify, invest, and manage business opportunities.
In 2017 he was awarded with the David Rockefeller Fellowship granting his participation in the Trilateral Commission in plenary and regional meetings for a term of three years (www.trilateral.org).
Diego holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a double degree in Law and Business Administration from Madrid’s Complutense University.
His areas of expertise are Business Education, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Digital Transformation, Advanced Technologies, Government of Change and Energy Efficiency, among others.
Cecilia Xu
Bidalgo
Cecilia Xu holds great passion for mobile internet advertising industry, has been working in this industry for more than 10 years till 2019, worked in Mobile MSN; First mobile ad network in China: Madhouse; Global No.1 Mobile attribution platform AppsFlyer. Helping foreign companies enter China market and make it a successful story used to be like an impossible mission, but during 4 years in AppsFlyer, Cecilia established sales team & SDR team from scratch in China Office to gain over 80% market share in GCR area, The journey is very fulfilling, Cecilia enjoyed working closely with Chinese top tier advertisers (All verticals including Gaming, e-commerce, Utilities. Etc.) aiming to help advertisers to get more insights out of data, now Cecilia is putting more endeavours in exploring how to utilize AI & Automation to put more positive impact on mobile ad industry in China. In order to expand horizon, Cecilia attended IE Business School EMBA (Global Executive MBA), 50% online, 50% offline filled by Workshops organized by IE in Spain & Insper in Sao Paulo & SMU in Singapore & UCLA in the U.S.in 2018. Beside hard working in career path, Cecilia also like spending time to explore how can she help more children by providing parenting education solution in China by utilizing her resources and knowledge and would love to spend more time with NGO groups to help children as much as she can.
Patricia Gabaldón
IE Business School
Patricia Gabaldón is currently Associate Professor of Economic Environment at IE Business School where she teaches applied economics and country economic analysis. She obtained a PhD in economics from University of Alcala, Spain and she was visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Professor Gabaldón’s research combines sociology and economics to understand gender issues and to help different company’s stakeholders to improve their decision-making. Among other topics, she investigates the role of media on appointing female directors, or the role in economic development of female entrepreneurs. She also studies the impact of economic business cycles on gender quotas on boards and on top management positions and its effects on the economy and society. Last but not least, her current research seeks ways to promote sustainable behavior among corporations, including gender mainstreaming and the effect on sustainable economic growth. Her research has also been published in numerous book chapters and articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: an International Review, or the European Management Journal, among others.
Professor Gabaldón has collaborated with multilateral and global institutions and she is frequently sought out by the media. She has also created with great success some multimedia cases to be used in class by MBA students.
Mar Hurtado de Mendoza
Global Recruitment & Marketing
Mar holds a Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Political Science from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), a Master in International Relations from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), an International MBA from IE Business School (Madrid, Spain) and an Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Strategy from IE School of Human Sciences and Technology (Madrid,Spain).
Mar has extensive experience in the area of sales and business development and has held several positions across a number of industries and sectors. She began her career in international trade policy to later create her own imports company. She joined IE in January 2012 as Director of Admissions. In 2015, she became IE’s Global Head of International Development at IE, leading the institution’s recruiting and business development activities through IE’s 31 representative offices around the world. Today, she is IE’s Vicepresident for Global Recruitment and Marketing, responsible for the institution’s Global Recruitment, Admissions and Marketing teams.
José Esteves
IE Business School
When José Esteves talks about information systems it is with intensity and a passion that is founded not only in the technology itself but also in the human side of these systems. Focusing on areas such as knowledge management, the implementation of enterprise systems and, more recently, enterprise risk management, Prof Esteves believes it is the way people interact with information technology that will determine the success or failure of its implementation.
A wealth of experience in the corporate world underpins this belief. As an information systems analyst and consultant for companies such as Ciba-Geigy and Sonae Group and before joining the academic world, Prof Esteves focused on understanding how information systems interacted with business processes and human resources management.
“Enterprise systems software packages support the management of the whole organisation. The big issue is that these systems change companies, their way of working and their culture, and they are critical to success”, he says. “So it’s all about human behaviour – individual, organisational and social – and we should analyze IT/IS at these three levels”.
Prof Esteves is also chair of eGovernment Software AG- Alianza Sumaq which focus on the analysis and understanding of eGovernment initiatives in Spain and Latin America.
In addition to his research and teaching, Prof Esteves continues to act as a consultant to a number of companies – something he believes makes an important contribution to his academic activities. And his theories continue to be aired in prominent journals and books, such as his chapter on Understanding ERP Systems Implementation in a Higher Education Institution: A Grounded Theory Approach, in Idea group’s 2004 book Qualitative Case Studies on Enterprise Wide Systems. “Consulting provides fieldwork, data and results because, without examples, it’s all just theory. So it’s a cycle – consulting, research and then applying it in the classes”.
Susana Malcorra
IE University
Susana Malcorra is the Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and was previously Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship for the Republic of Argentina back in 2015. After her resignation in July 2017, she served as Minister Advisor to the President until December 2017. As such, she presided over the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference held in Buenos Aires.
She is currently a member of the External Advisors Group for the President of the General Assembly, Miroslav Lajčák. She is part of the executive councils of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, the Atlantic Council, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Aspen Ministers’ Forum.
Ms. Malcorra is a distinguished fellow for IE’s Transatlantic Relations Initiative in Madrid, and a member of the Democracy Cluster at EUI’s School of Transnational Governance in Florence. She has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rosario and 25 years of professional experience in the private sector (IBM and Telecom Argentina).
Ms. Malcorra began her corporate career as a systems engineer at IBM, eventually becoming the CEO of Telecom Argentina. She left Telecom in 2002, and in 2004 joined the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) where she became the chief operating officer. In May 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General appointed her Under-Secretary General of the recently created Department of Field Support.
Becoming the chief of staff for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave her invaluable experience for both humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations. She has handled complex negotiations as a diplomat in various countries. She coordinated the mission to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons and the first ever Ebola emergency response in West Africa.
Ms. Malcorra has received numerous recognitions during her United Nations tenure and as a foreign minister.
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.
Alba Vázquez
IE Center for Diversity in Global Management
IE Women Initiative Executive Director and Associate Director of the Center for Diversity in Global Management IE Business School. Award winning professional with over 20 years working experience in the commitment to internal and external customers. Able to find solutions and new ways of managing when needed with both internal and external teams, using not only the knowledge and experience gained at work but also high doses of creativity and adaptability in a world of constant change. Frequent reader and traveler having visited over 25 countries. Academic credentials include an Executive Master in Communications at IE University and a BA in Linguistics. Education, tourism and arts are my main areas of professional development in English, Spanish and French entrepreneurial ecosystems.