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.