Innovation Council

Innovation Council of recognised senior experts and mentors engaged in ecosystem projects.The council members engage in their personal capacity in our activities.

Isidro Navalón (ES)

Isidro Navalón is an economist with a master’s degree in Business Management, Human Resources, and Industrial Organization. His career has focused on strategic human resources consulting, gaining extensive experience in leading multinational companies in distribution and consulting.

In 2011, he founded and now directs Experience and Wiser, a consultancy firm specialized in strategic human talent management. Under his leadership, the company has completed hundreds of projects in areas such as talent identification, selection, and development, as well as organizational design, workplace climate, and total compensation strategies. His approach combines a focus on achieving efficient results with the development of employees’ skills and motivation, delivering innovative and sustainable solutions that create value for both companies and their teams.

Additionally, Isidro is an enthusiastic and professional participant in the academic field, collaborating with prestigious institutions such as EAE Business School and UNIE, where he shares his extensive experience and strategic vision with future leaders and professionals.

Olga Ramírez (ES)

Olga Ramírez is managing partner at Experience and Wiser, a strategic consulting and human capital firm that helps companies align their talent management with their strategic objectives. With a solid track record in leadership and executive assessment, she has advised various companies on recruitment processes, talent evaluation, and career reorientation for senior executives.

Her expertise in Buen Gobierno Corporativo has led her to obtain certification from the Instituto de Consejeros y Administradores (IC-A), in addition to serving as an independent board member and Senior Advisor in three different companies. Throughout her career, she has been closely linked to the technology sector, gaining extensive knowledge in telecommunications, space, ICT, and cybersecurity.

Olga is an economist specializing in Econometrics and holds multiple postgraduate degrees, including an MBA and several master’s degrees in Business Strategy and Telecommunications Management. Additionally, she has built a distinguished teaching career at institutions such as IE Business School and European University, among many others. Committed to promoting STEM vocations, she actively participates in outreach initiatives and collaborates with organizations and media to inspire future generations in the technology and scientific fields.

Gonzalo Figuera (ES)

Gonzalo Figuera Díez-Picazo, SM in Technology and Policy (MIT), Engineer École Centrale Paris, Industrial Engineer UPM (Madrid), is an experienced business leader, consultant and entrepreneur, specialized in innovation-based organizations and digital transformation.

Currently, he works as Innovation Director at Innogate to Europe, a company specialised in managing international projects. He has over 20 years of previous experience working for large corporations and engineering companies (Telefonica R&D, INECO), large academic institutions (MIT, UPM), consulting companies (Cluster Consulting, now Oliver Wyman), and technology-based start-ups (N2S-GAMESA Group).

His fields of specialty include ICT (information and communication technologies), software, IoT (internet of things), automation, infrastructures, smart cities, energy and energy efficiency, renewables, bioenergy, cleantech, sustainable transport, electric vehicle, infrastructures and sustainability. He teaches courses on technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, energy and energy efficiency, and acts as editor and contributor to publications, lectures and seminars related to his work.

Carlos Herreros (ES)

Carlos Herreros has more than 30 years of experience consulting to businesses in different industries and sizes. He has been working in coaching with top level executives to help them in their thinking of strategy and to develop their level of consciousness to cope with the growing complexity of their jobs.

His understanding of strategy is evolutionary in the sense that what it ultimately should pursue is the survival of the organization. Therefore it is probably the most important task of leaders and executives.

He is also interested in learning and teaching the history of management.

He considers himself an expert on neuroscience applied to management and to creative and innovative processes that require grit, self-awareness, flow and resilience; neuroscience provides us with resources and tools for improvement in all the four areas.

Luis Delgado (ES)

Luis Delgado has a Ph.D. in Physics (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and a Diploma in Planning and Administration of Business (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). He is Executive Advisor at the General Secretariat of Universities in the Spanish Ministry of Education. He has a long experience working in Higher Education, Research and Innovation as well as in Planning and Management and on policy making at national and international level, for more than 30 years as:

Materials’ Researcher (CIEMAT, Spain),
Managing Director of Technological Centre (Madrid Institute of Technology)
Director of Planning and Management of Public Research Organization (IGME, 1993- 2002))
Deputy Director General of International Organisms and Programmes (2002 – 2007)
Coordinator of the Unit Universities and Researchers. DG Research and Technological Development. European Commission (2007 – 2009) in charge of the Modernisation Agenda for European Universities.
Deputy Director General of Modernization and Internationalization of Universities (Ministry of Education, 2009 – 2011).

He has represented Spain in in different international research and HE committees, programmes and organisms: BFUG, OECD – IMHE, Council of Europe; European Commission, the European University Institute, etc.

He is author or co-author of more than 150 papers on scientific journals, conferences, seminars and workshops on higher education, research, innovation, technology transfer, employability, management, international cooperation, etc.