Manuel Muñiz

Dr Manuel Muñiz is the provost of IE University in Madrid and dean of IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs. He is responsible for the university’s international expansion through strategic alliances and for research and teaching in Public Policy, Global Affairs and Economics. Dr Muñiz is also the head of the IE Arts & Humanities Division and founder of the IE Centre for the Governance of Change. He served as State Secretary (Vice Minister) at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2020 to 2021. In this role, he was responsible for the ministry’s Strategy and Foresight Unit, the Economic Diplomacy Team, and the Communications Department. Dr Muñiz holds a DPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford and two master’s degrees in Public Administration from Harvard University and in Financial Markets from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles in Madrid.