Rafael Martínez Ferreira

With more than 20 years of teaching experience at IE and more than 30 at other institutions, Professor Rafael Martínez Ferreira is an expert in Finance focusing on Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Derivatives and Risk and Financial Management. Rafael Martínez Ferreira also travels around the five continents giving conferences about Finance and International Strategy.

Rafael wants future CEOs and Financial Managers to manage their own businesses by focusing their attention on value creation and, on the risks, they know how to deal with and hedging those they do not. Additionally, he wants them to optimize the funding of corporations either from the equity side as well as from loans or bonds.

Indeed, Rafael always claims that “best businesses are those that are made with others’ money”. At the same time, Rafael wants Bankers to have a deep knowledge of financial products and of where to make fair and risk-controlled money out of them by adding value to corporations and society in general.

Professor Rafael Martínez Ferreira holds a PhD in Economics from UNED graduating summa cum laude. His thesis dealt with Estimating Capital at Risk and Risk Hedging in Bonds and Derivatives Portfolios. Additionally, Rafael holds an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from ICAI. He speaks, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

Professor Rafael Martínez Ferreira combines teaching with management. He is currently managing partner of martinsdelima. This company helps clients in their international arbitration or normal litigation processes to clarify financial, antitrust and engineering matters. Also, the company helps its clients in financial activities as Mergers & Acquisitions and debt and derivatives structuring. He is also Board Member of several companies.

He has worked as a consultant in McKinsey & Company in banking, telecommunications and air transport. He was for 7 years CEO of Hera W2R, a company working in Renewable Energy and Waste Recycling in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He worked 12 years at Banco Santander as Managing Director (Subdirector General Adjunto) working in Europe, the Americas and Africa in areas such as Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Consumer Finance and Risk Management. Finally, he also was Artificial Intelligence Analyst at Procter & Gamble.

His dual education on Finance and Engineering combined with his experience in consulting, banking and industry makes him a deep academic with a direct to the point view on real life practice.

Corporate Experience

• Martinsdelima & partners (Forensic and Financial Advisory), 2013 - Present

• Hera W2R (Renewable Energy and Recycling). CEO, 2005 - 2012

• Banco Santander. Managing Director (Subdirector General Adjunto), 1994 - 2005

• Amadeus. Business Development Manager, 1993 - 1994

• McKinsey & Company. Consultant, 1989 - 1991

• Procter & Gamble. Artificial Intelligence at IT Department, 1988 - 1989

Academic Experience

• International Speaker. Asia, Europe, Africa, America, Australia,  2012 - Present

• IE Adjunct Professor of Finance (IMBA, MIF, MIAF, MIM, EXMIF, GMIF, MISF),  2003 - Present

• Banco Santander Corporate University. Visiting Professor of Financial Markets, 2008 - 2019

• UNED. Associate Professor of Finance (Financial Markets Introduction Course),  1997 - 2002

• ICAI Engineering School. Thesis Director (Directed thesis on Risk Management, Derivatives & Financial Markets), 1994 - 2001

• ICAI Engineering School. Assistant Professor (Computer Science & Calculus), 1986 - 1988

Academic Background

• PhD in Economics, UNED (Madrid, Spain), 1996 - 2003

• MBA, INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), 1992

• MSc in Industrial Engineering (Madrid & Barcelona, Spain), 1983 - 1989