Concepción Galdon

Concepción Galdón is Director/Lead Academic of Social Innovation at IE University. She is responsible for creating Social Innovation academic content in all schools and programs, fostering more research in Social Innovation, and collaborating with organizations and partners interested in Social Innovation. Concepción is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IE. Concepción is also president of the social enterprise Puentes Global, which she co-founded in 2009. She is a member of Ashoka Spain's Venture Board and impact fund investment committees.

Concepción is an Economist from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has a Master's in Public Administration and International Development that she obtained from the Harvard Kennedy School. Concepción has a PhD in International Economics and Development from the Complutense University of Madrid, which awarded her the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Economics. Her PhD research focuses on the use of technology in social entrepreneurship. She has published academic journal articles and book chapters. She writes contributions for the media regularly and is a speaker at international conferences.

His previous professional experience includes founding an NGO, the UN Procurement Service, the Latin America Division of Banco Santander, and the Government of Liberia under the presidency of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Director/Lead Academic of Social Innovation, IE, Spain, 2017-present

• Member of the Venture Board of Ashoka Spain, Ahoka Spain, Spain, 2015-present

• President and co-founder, Puentes Global, Spain, 2010-present

• Director of Area 31, IE, Spain, 2012-2017

• Deputy Director of the Center for Diversity, IE, Spain, 2010-2012

• Fellow, Liberian Ministry of Finance, Liberia, 2008

• Economic Analyst for Latin America, Banco Santander, Spain, 2006-2007

• Fellow, United Nations, New York, 2005

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, IE Business School, 2011-present

• Professor of Social Innovation and technology, IE University, 2019-present

• Tutor corporate innovation projects, HeadSpring, 2015-present

• Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, Executive Education IE, 2017-present

• Author of Migrant Entrepreneurship for Europe's Economic Growth: Reshaping a Collective Conception, Council on Business and Society, 2019

• Author of Scaling up Social Innovation: Role of Government in the global provision of innovative solutions, Council on Business and Society, 2019

ACADEMIC TRAINING • PhD in International Economics and Development, Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Economics, Outstanding "cum laude", Complutense University of Madrid, 2016

• Rafael del Pino Foundation and Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Workshop in Global Leadership, 2015

• Master in Public Administration/International Development, Harvard Kennedy School, 2009

• Degree in Economic Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2005