Alberto
Ribera

Alberto Ribera joined IESE in 2003 after a 15-year international career with the World Health Organisation, the European Commission, and other multilateral organizations, in charge of projects in Africa, Southeast Asia, and especially in the Middle East. From 1999 to 2003, he was General Director of the Euro Arab Management School.

He was a Professor of the Practice of Management and the academic director of the IESE Coaching Unit of IESE until 2022 when he retired and became a former collaborator of IESE. He has taught in Master and Executive programs. He teaches long courses in the master programs such as  “Personality and Self-Leadership and Happiness”, which received the 2009 IESE Award for Excellence; and “Managing Oneself”; and executive courses on self-leadership, relationships management and executive coaching. He is the author or co-author of 9 books and more than 30 case-studies.

He has been invited as visiting professor or guest speaker at universities and business schools of more than 20 different countries and at international conferences like the World Economic Forum. He has taught courses for Enel, Compagnia di San Paolo, Banco di Napoli, Telecom Italia, Saint Gobain, The Arab Contractors, Egypt Telecom, BBVA, Banco de España, Enrst&Young, Hewlett Packard, PricewaterhouseCoopers and other firms.

He is a board member of the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Rome), Limmat Stiftung (Zurich) and other not-for-profit institutions.