Ángel Cabrera is President of Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is a world-renowned global leader and management educator whose work and expertise has been recognized and tapped by top global organizations including the World Economic Forum and the United Nations.

As a member of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, he led the “Hippocratic Oath” project that resulted in today’s Professional Oath of Honor at Thunderbird. He is a regular attendee of the World Economic Forum held in Davos each year and presently serves as the Founding Chair of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Promoting Entrepreneurship. Dr. Cabrera also presently serves as a Senior Adviser to the UN Global Compact Office on Academic Affairs, and in that role, chaired a taskforce to develop the “Principles for Responsible Management Education,” which serve to strengthen the role of business schools in promoting global corporate citizenship.

Dr. Cabrera also serves on the boards of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright scholars program), the Georgia Institute of Technology, ESSEC Business School, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Future Trends Forum in Madrid.

Before Thunderbird, Dr. Cabrera was Professor and Dean at Madrid’s IE Business School, one of Europe’s leading business schools.

A native of Spain, Dr. Cabrera earned his Ph.D. and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BS and MS in Engineering from Madrid Polytechnical University, Spain’s premier engineering school. He has authored numerous papers in leading academic journals and conferences.