2008 Faculty Pioneers

Antonio Argandoña is professor and chairman of the Department of Economics and holds IESE's 'la Caixa' Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance. He works principally in the areas of macroeconomics and monetary economics, international economics and applied ethics in economics and business and corporate social responsibility. He has held teaching appointments at the universities of Barcelona, Malaga and Navarra.

 

Prof. Argandoña earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Barcelona. He also holds a B.A. in Economics from the same university.

 

Prof. Argandoña is a member of the Royal Academy of Economics and Finance (Barcelona). He is currently editor of the IESE Alumni Magazine and is a member of the Editorial Boards of European Economic Overview , Kluwer Series on Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review, The Business Ethics Quarterly and Journal of International Business Education.

 

He is also chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Catalonia Economics Association, member of the Advisory Committee "Memòria Econòmica de Catalunya" of the Chambers of Commerce of Catalonia and member of the Commission on Anti-Corruption of the International Chamber of Commerce.

 

Prof. Argandoña has published numerous books and articles on the Spanish economy, macroeconomics, the international economy and ethics in economics and business. He is also a widely-published author of research, working and occasional papers. Recent examples include the occasional papers "Veinte años de estabilización macroeconómica" (Twenty Years of Macroeconomic Stabilization) and "Ethics in Economics and in Organizations: Can They be Fully Integrated?" (2006), and the research paper "La Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción y su impacto sobre las empresas internacionales" (The United Nations Convention against Corruption and its Impact on International Companies), 2006.