Member in the News: Ángel Cabrera
Dialogue member Ángel Cabrera has been named President of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will assume the position before September 15, 2019.
Ángel Cabrera
Spain | President, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ángel Cabrera is president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. From 2012 until 2019, Cabrera was the president of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Before that, Cabrera led two internationally renowned business schools: Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona and IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. As a business educator, he played a key role in advancing professional ethics and corporate social responsibility. As a senior advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, Cabrera led the creation of “The Principles for Responsible Management Education,” which has been adopted by more than 500 business schools around the world. In partnership with the World Economic Forum and leading Harvard Business School faculty, he co-founded The Oath Project, an international initiative to establish a code of conduct for business leaders. In 2004, BusinessWeek named Cabrera one of 25 “Stars of Europe,” and in 2011 the Financial Times recognized him as one of the top 20 business school leaders in the world.
A native of Spain, Cabrera holds BS and MS degrees in engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He earned MS and PhD degrees in psychology and cognitive science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar.
Cabrera joined the Dialogue as a Member in 2016.
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