Nuria Chinchilla

Married and the mother of one daughter.Ph.D. in Economics and Business Administration (University of Navarra). Obtained her MBA from IESE Business School and a law degree from the University of Barcelona. She is currently Professor at IESE Business School and Director of the International Center for Work and Family. Prof. Chinchilla is often sought out as advisor by companies, governments and the UN, she is also member of several councils and president of NCH & Partners. She developed the term EFR (Empresa Familiarmente Responsable) and the Index of Family Responsible Companies (IFREI). Prof. Chinchilla is a member of the Top Ten Management in Spain and has written several books, such as   “Female Ambition”, “Masters of our Destiny” or “Balancing Work and Family: no matter where you are”.

Her areas of specialization are work and family, coaching and time management, interpersonal conflicts and leadership in management committees. In the past years, she has received much recognition for her work, among those, the prize FEDEPE for the Woman Executive of the Year in 2001, "Most Valuable Speaker" by Interban Network in 2008 and this year she has being recognized as one of the "100 Spanish women of the 21st century".

In 2008, the University of Stanford published the case study "Nuria Chinchilla: The power to Change Workplaces" published by Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer as teching material for the course "Power and Influence".

Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, English, German and Russian

For more information:
www.iese.edu/icwf
www.nuriachinchilla.com