Manuel Muñiz is the Provost of IE University in Madrid and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IE New York College. Dr. Muñiz served as Dean of IE’s School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs (SPEGA) from 2017 to 2024. From June of 2023 to January of 2025 Dr. Muñiz served as President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). From 2020 to 2021 Dr. Muñiz was State Secretary (Vice Minister) at the Spanish Foreign Ministry. In this capacity he led the Strategy and Foresight unit at the Ministry as well as the Economic Diplomacy team, and the Communications department, including the Office for Diplomatic Information. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Club of Madrid and a council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Lastly, Dr. Muñiz is a recipient of a number of awards and recognitions including the Grand Cross of Spain’s Order of Merit, the Trilateral Commission’s David Rockefeller Fellowship, the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship, and the Eisenhower Fellowship. Dr. Muniz holds a Master’s in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations from the University of Oxford.
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
• State Secretary for Global Spain (Vice-Minister), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Spain, 2020 – 2021
• Co-Founder & President, Silmaril Technologies, Spain, 2023 – Present
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Provost, IE University, Spain, 2021 – Present
• Chair of the Board of Trustees, IE New York College, US, 2024 – Present
• Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, Spain, 2021 – 2024
• Co-Chair & Founder, IE Center for the Governance of Change, Spain, 2021 – Present
• Head, IE School of Humanities, Spain, 2021 – 2024
• President, Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, 2023 – 2024
• Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution, US, 2023
• Fellow (formerly Senior Associate), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US, 2017 – 2020
• Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US, 2015 – 2017
• Director, Program on Global Leadership, Rafael del Pino Foundation, Spain, 2014 – 2020
• Lecturer, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy & Institute for Global Leadership, Tufts University, US, 2016 – 2017
• Teaching Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK, 2013 – 2015
• Research Fellow, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), SciencesPo, France, 2012 – 2014
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
• Global Executive Leadership Program, Yale University, US, 2024
• DPhil (PhD) in International Relations, Oxford University, UK, 2017
• Master in Public Administration, Harvard University, US, 2011
• Masters of Science (MSc) in Financial Markets, IEB, Spain, 2009
• JD (Law), Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, 2004
