Manuel Muñiz
- Provost of IE University, Madrid, shaping its global presence and leading the School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs (SPEGA).
- Elected President of APSIA, showcasing leadership in global education, and appointed as a Senior Fellow at Brookings.
- Former State Secretary at the Spanish Foreign Ministry, driving strategic initiatives and crafting national policies.
- Distinguished academic focusing on technology’s societal impact and populism, with degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and recipient of numerous prestigious awards.
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Manuel Muñiz's 2024 biography
Meet Manuel Muñiz
Manuel Muñiz is the Provost of IE University in Madrid and a Professor of Practice of International Relations, with a range of experience in academia. He is also the Dean of IE School of Global and Public Affairs, responsible for research and teaching in public policy and global affairs. His academic work has focused on the fields of innovation and disruption, political economy, and regional and global governance.
From January of 2020 to July of 2021, Muñiz served as State Secretary at the Spanish Foreign Ministry. In this role, he was responsible for leading the ministry’s Strategy and Foresight Unit, the Economic Diplomacy Team, and the Communications Department, including the Office for Diplomatic Information. He coordinated Spain’s 2021–2024 Foreign Policy Strategy, and led the work on the National Strategy on Technology and Global Order. During this time, he coordinated Spain’s OECD Ministerial Presidency of 2020 and was a member of the Prime Minister’s COVID-19 task force.
He has received an array of awards and recognitions including 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. In 2016, Esglobal named him one of the 25 intellectuals having the greatest impact on our thinking about Iberoamerica.
Meet Manuel Muñiz
Manuel Muñiz is the Provost of IE University in Madrid and a Professor of Practice of International Relations, with a range of experience in academia. He is also the Dean of IE School of Global and Public Affairs, responsible for research and teaching in public policy and global affairs. His academic work has focused on the fields of innovation and disruption, political economy, and regional and global governance.
From January of 2020 to July of 2021, Muñiz served as State Secretary at the Spanish Foreign Ministry. In this role, he was responsible for leading the ministry’s Strategy and Foresight Unit, the Economic Diplomacy Team, and the Communications Department, including the Office for Diplomatic Information. He coordinated Spain’s 2021–2024 Foreign Policy Strategy, and led the work on the National Strategy on Technology and Global Order. During this time, he coordinated Spain’s OECD Ministerial Presidency of 2020 and was a member of the Prime Minister’s COVID-19 task force.
He has received an array of awards and recognitions including 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. In 2016, Esglobal named him one of the 25 intellectuals having the greatest impact on our thinking about Iberoamerica.
Manuel Muñiz's 2024 talks & topics
A New Geopolitics and Global Order: Emerging Challenges
This lecture focuses on modern geopolitics and how it is redefining the global order. Manuel Muñiz analyzes current dynamics between nations, emerging challenges such as the era of AI and its risks, conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, tensions in Taiwan, the role of NATO and security, the fracture of the global economic environment, and how these factors are reshaping international relations and the structure of global power.
A Symphony of Disorder: The Need for a New Social Contract
In this talk, Dr. Muñiz explores the evolution of the concept of the social contract in the current context and the danger facing liberal democracies, especially in a year where over half the population is called to the polls. He addresses how socioeconomic and political changes, populisms, and anti-elite movements are driving the need for a new social contract that reflects contemporary, digital, inclusive, and sustainable realities and citizen expectations.
Technological Diplomacy and Strategic Foresight
Dr. Muñiz shares insights into technological diplomacy, highlighting his experience in the National Technology and Global Order Strategy, and how technology affects power, prosperity, and political principles or systems. He addresses the challenges and opportunities that technology poses globally, where everything is highly interconnected, emphasizing the importance of addressing strategic foresight from all fields and actors to anticipate unforeseen situations in a constantly changing and exponentially fast-paced world.
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