Eugenia Bieto Caubet

Born in Barcelona in 1950. Bachelor of Business Sciences and Master of Business Administration, ESADE. Advanced Studies Diploma, ESADE-Ramón Llull University. Doctor cum laude with a doctoral thesis on the adoption of Corporate Entrepreneurship strategies by Spanish companies, Ramón Llull University.

Work experience

ESADE: Director General (2010-2018), Corporate Deputy Director General (2006-2010), Deputy to the Dean (1980-1982) and Teacher in the Department of Quantitative Methods (1973-1982).

Chair (2016-2018) of the CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education.

Deputy Director of Territorial Rebalancing, CIDEM (Innovation and Business Development Centre), Catalan Government (1994-1997)

Responsible for training and promoting business creation (1992-1994) with CEEI (European Centre for Innovative Companies), Alcoy (Valencia)

Director of the Association of Entrepreneurs of the El Comtat and l’Alcoià zone of Alicante, DATO Association (education for persons with disabilities) (1988-1992)

Current occupation

Teacher in the Department of Strategy and General Management (since 2018) - Director of the ESADE Women Initiative, which promotes the gender perspective in all ESADE activities (training, research and social debate) and in the organisation itself

Director of the “Youth and Leadership” programme in collaboration with CEOE and the Institute of Women, aimed at 50 first-year baccalaureate girls in the Autonomous Region of Madrid

Teacher and mentor of the ‘Promociona’ Programme, promoted by CEOE, aimed at women Business Managers

President of the ESADE Alumni WE (Women Empowerment) Club

Vice-President of the ESADE Senior Alumni Club

Other activities

Member of the ESADE Creapolis Board of Directors

Accountant on the Governing Board of the Círculo del Liceo de Barcelona (private social and cultural club)

Board of Directors of the Catalan Foundations Coordinator

Board of Trustees, SM (Society of Mary) Foundation (educational non-profit)

Member of the International Advisory Boards of  University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Université Paris-Dauphine, France; Fundaçao Getulio Vargas EBAPE, Brazil; SKEMA Business School, France and School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

She also belongs to various award panels, including the International Cooperation Panel for the Princess of Asturias Awards

She collaborates with AACSB and EFMD, the two leading international accreditation agencies in the business school sector.