Nuria Chinchilla

Nuria Chinchilla is a Professor of People Management in Organizations at IESE Business School, University of Navarra (since 1984). She holds the Carmina Roca and Rafael Pich-Aguilera Chair in Women and Leadership, serves as Director of the International Center for Work & Family and I-WIL (IESE Women in Leadership), and has been a member of academic advisory boards including the International University of Catalonia.

• PhD in Economics and Business Administration (IESE, 1994/1993)
• Harvard Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management (1995)
• Stanford Executive Program in Organizational Change (1986)
• IESE MBA (1984)
• University of Barcelona Law Degree (1982)

Her research focuses on humanistic economics, corporate family responsibility, and gender equality in leadership. She pioneered the Work & Family field and Women in Leadership programs at IESE, and her work explores alternatives to Homo Economicus through the Homo Liber Curans framework. She consults for governments (Spain, Mexico, Chile) and corporations (HP, Coca-Cola Spain, Sanofi Aventis), with over three decades of executive coaching experience.

• FEDEPE Executive Woman of the Year (2001)
• Most Valuable Speaker 2007 (Interban Network)
• Executive Woman Award - Work-Life Balance (2008)
• Spain's candidate for UN CEDAW (2012)
• 100 TOP Spanish Women of the 21st Century (2011-2013)

As Academic Director of IESE's Focused Programs on Women on Boards (Miami), Corporate Family Responsibility, and Women and Leadership (since 1992), she has shaped leadership development across 20+ countries. Her management experience includes directing IESE's Department of People Management (2000-02) and serving on boards of AED, EFAS, and International Women Forum (Spain). She co-developed the Integrated Work-Life model adopted by governments and corporations.