Ms. Belén Villalonga Morenés is an Associate Professor with Tenure at New York University's Stern School of Business. Between 2001 and 2012 she was a faculty member at Harvard Business School. She serves as an independent director at Acciona, leader in the renewable energy and infrastructure businesses, since 2006, and at Talgo, a high-speed train manufacturer, since 2015. She is also a Senior Associate Partner at Cambridge Advisors to Family Enterprise, a family business consulting company. Her teaching, research, and consulting activities are in the areas of corporate strategy, finance, and governance, with a special focus on family-controlled companies. Her award-winning research, which has been published in the top academic journals, has been cited extensively in academic articles and in the international media. She holds a Ph.D. in Management and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a second Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a B.A. in Economic and Management Sciences from the Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros in Madrid. Before starting her doctoral studies, she worked at McKinsey & Co. in Paris.

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