Speaker Bio
Xavier Ferràs is Associate Dean of the Executive MBA at Esade. He is also a professor of Operations Management, Innovation and Data Sciences and was the executive director of Business Custom Programmes at Esade Business School. He previously was Dean of the Faculty of Business and Communication Studies at the University of Vic. Until 2012, he served as Director of the Catalan Agency for Competitiveness, where he was responsible for technology transfer policies, R&D and the development of clusters in Catalonia. He served as CIDEM Director of Business Development, Head of Innovation and Coordinator of the Technological Innovation Plan for Catalonia (2001-2004) and was a member of the committee responsible for drafting the Research and Innovation Plan (2005-2008).