Numerary Member
Human Sciences: Dr. in Comunication
Date of admission: June 28, 2023
Entrance speech: Inteligencia Artificial y Ética. Abordando los desafíos y construyendo un futuro responsable
Response speech: Dr. Rafael Urrialde de Andrés
Dr. Cecilia Kindelán is a university professor. She is a firm promoter of the power of human connections, a professional activity to which she has dedicated a good part of her research in recent years.
She has a PhD in Communication and a degree in Journalism and Law. She worked at IESE Business School as associate director of the MBA program and as director of its international exchange program. She was previously deputy director of the Spanish Association of Managers. After working for 10 years at Universia, a higher education initiative of Banco Santander, in 2014 she moved to Canada where she worked for Saint-Paul University and later to Ecuador as a professor and postgraduate director at SEK International University.
She has a Master’s Degree in Communication and Art, and a Master’s Degree in Communication Management from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Completed the Advanced Negotiation and Leadership Seminars applying Harvard University Global System™️.
She has been a member of the Elcano Institute‘s social responsibility research group, a Rafael del Pino Foundation Scholar, an ANECA evaluator and a member of the international jury of the FIDAL Foundation‘s Educational Excellence Contest.
Her most recent book, co-edited with Dr. José Ramón Calvo, and Dr. Mari Angels Calvo is “La Gran Pausa. Gramática de una Pandemia”. She is currently a professor at the University of Barcelona, where she teaches strategic communication classes and also teaches at Ubbiquo Global Business School, an international Business School based in the US, dedicated to executive training. She has also been a visiting professor at other business schools and universities.
She was secretary general of the Excellence Foundation, an organization made up of 24 Nobel laureates and former heads of government. She is a founding member of the Rosalía Arteaga Women Foundation where she is involved in educational projects aimed at women and has participated in numerous national and international forums, mainly highlighting her activity with the international organization Horasis. She has recognized experience as an organizer of academic events and has been requested on numerous occasions as a speaker in debates with personalities from science, economics and politics, both inside and outside Spain.
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