| Manuel Muñiz is the Provost of IE University in Madrid and a Professor of Practice of International Relations. As Provost he is a key contributor to IE’s strategic development, and responsible for its international expansion and strategic alliances. Dr. Muñiz is also the Dean of IE’s School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs (SPEGA), which has an internal and adjunct faculty of over 100 professors and 1,500 students distributed across undergraduate and graduate programs in Economics, Politics, International Relations, and International Development. He is also Chair of the Board of the IE New York College.
In June 2023, Dr. Muñiz was elected President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), the preeminent organization bringing together the world’s top schools of global affairs and public policy, and was appointed a Senior Fellow at Brookings’ Foreign Policy Program. From 2020 to 2021, Dr. Muñiz was State Secretary (Vice Minister) at the Spanish Foreign Ministry, where he led the Strategy and Foresight unit, the Economic Diplomacy team, and the Communications department, including the Office for Diplomatic Information. During this time, he coordinated the crafting of Spain’s 2021-2024 Foreign Action Strategy and led the National Strategy on Technology and Global Order. He also coordinated Spain’s OECD Ministerial Presidency of 2020 and was a member of the Prime Minister’s Covid-19 task force. From 2015 to 2017, Dr. Muñiz was the Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and from 2017 to 2020 he was a Senior Associate at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His academic work has focused on the impact of technology on social and economic trends, the drivers behind the rise of populism, and the fracturing of the social contract in western countries. Dr. Muñiz holds a JD (Law) from the Complutense University in Madrid, an MSc in Financial Markets from the IEB, a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He is a Permanent Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Club of Madrid, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ortega-Marañón Foundation, and a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is a recipient of the Trilateral Commission’s David Rockefeller Fellowship, the Körber Foundation’s 2017 Munich Young Leader Fellowship, the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship, and the Eisenhower Fellowship. |
