Numerary Member and Secretary General of the Governing Board
Social Sciences: PhD in Law
Date of admission: 25 April 2017
Admission speech: «Governance and Management in the Family Business»
Reply speech: Dr. Joan-Francesc Pont Clemente, PhD in Law
Outstanding career: Specialist in corporate governance, company law, and good business governance. Legal advisor to renowned financial institutions and member of several boards of directors, he is a key figure in the modernization of commercial law in Spain.
Dr. JOSÉ MANUEL CALAVIA MOLINERO
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Law Cum Laude from the University of Barcelona, where he carries out his teaching and research activity as Professor of Commercial Law and Co-director of the Master’s Degree in Business Law (IL3).
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Practising lawyer specialising in: corporate law, competition law, insolvency law, refinancing and restructuring of companies in crisis, business law arbitration (international and national), distribution contracts, and family business law.
- Professor in various master’s and postgraduate programmes at several universities.
- Member of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB) and registered in the Register of Insolvency Administrators of that institution.
- Secretary and board member of several companies and corporate groups.
- Arbitrator at the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris.
- Arbitrator at the Arbitral Tribunal of Barcelona.
- Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration of Madrid.
- Member of the Legal Committee of Foment del Treball Nacional.
- Legal advisor in commercial law to several professional associations and organisations.
PUBLICATIONS
Author of numerous monographs and articles in specialised journals on:
- Corporate law, insolvency law, bills of exchange and cheques, family business, arbitration, distribution contracts, and consumer law.
- Speaker at numerous conferences, seminars, and congresses on commercial law.
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