Susana Torres Prieto is PhD. 'Doctor Europeus' in Slavic Philology by Cambridge University and Universidad Complutense. She did her postdoctoral studies on history in Paris (EPHE) and on paleograhpy and codicology in the US (Ohio State University). Professor Torres has developed her academic and research career in the areas of Slavic and Medieval Studies. She has specialized on the literature and culture of Russia from the Middle Ages until now, as well as on the means and context of transmission of knowledge, on which she has published extensively. She has taught in several universities in Spain and the US and, after having been member of several international research groups, directed her own international research group on translations into Slavic of Greek religious texts. She has been appointed Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Harvard, Ohio State, and Cambridge (UK). She is also member of several scientific societies worldwide. Her current research focuses on the transmission and representation of ideologies of power from the Middle Ages until now, particularly in the different Classical and Biblical models used in Eastern and Western Europe.  

Deputy Director of Humanities at IE. B.A. in Humanities and M.A. in Cultural Heritage Management from Universidad San Pablo-CEU (SPAIN). . Master in International Management from IE Business School (ES). 

Dr. Arantza de Areilza, PhD with honors in Social Sciences from IE University, is the Dean of Humanities. Arantza also holds a Master´s degree in International Public Policy from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (USA), and Bachelor´s degree in International Relations from Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) of the Robert Schuman University (France) and in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Complutense (Spain). 

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño is the Dean of IE Business School. He studied at Madrid’s Complutense University and Oxford University, UK. Iñiguez de Onzoño is a Doctor of Law and holds an MBA from IE Business School. 

RAFAEL PUYOL, University Professor of Human Geography in the Madrid Complutense University’s School of Geography and History, and Chancellor of that University between December 1995 and 2003. He pursued post-graduate studies at universities in France (Paris) and England (Nottingham).  

Rolf Strom-Olsen obtained his BA cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. After a stint at CNN, he embarked upon graduate studies, first at McGill University (MA), and then at Northwestern University, where he completed a PhD in History.  

Manuel Lucena Giraldo is a chief Scientific at the Institute of History (Spanish National Research Council) in Madrid. He has been a visiting researcher at IVIC (Venezuela), La Pontificia Univerisdad Javeriana (Bogota), El Colegio de Mexico, Institute of Latin American Studies at London University, St Anthony’s College (Oxford University) and Harvard. 

Julián Montaño studied Philosophy at Universidad of Sevilla, Spain, and holds a Master in Philosophy from University of Glasgow in the UK and an MBA from IE Business School.