MAKE YOUR MOVE: A CAREERS MASTERCLASS SERIES FINANCE

In the session will be looking at:

a) what we can learn from our mistakes when taking financial decisions by looking at financial history,

b) are “forecasts” dangerous?

c) emerging fields of finance. 

Speaker bio:

Ignacio de la Torre (@idelatorrem) is Academic Director of IE’s Master in Finance and Partner and Chief Economist at the Spanish Investment Bank, Arcano Partners.  Ignacio was amongst the first to foresee the turnaround of the Spanish economy from 2012 on, a thesis that was published in a series of reports titled “The Case for Spain”.  Ignacio counts over twenty years of experience in diverse fields of investment banking at Arcano, UBS and Deutsche Bank within the departments of Capital Markets. Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Economics and Finance at IE Business School. For the past decade, he has been a regular columnist for the Spanish newspaper, El Confidencial, since 2019, for Expansión and since 2020 for El Mundo / Actualidad Económica.  Ignacio has published five books, as well as several academic papers (on the financial activities of the Templar Knights) and case studies (with INSEAD and IE).  In 2019 he won the Asprima-Sima award granted by the Spanish real estate sector, and in 2009, the Everis literary award.  Also in 2009, he founded the NGO Financieros sin Fronteras (“Financiers without Borders“), of which he is vice president.  He also serves as Chairman of the advisory board of Círculo de Empresarios and is a member of the board of Arcano Partners.  Ignacio holds a Ph. D. in Medieval History (UNED), an MBA (INSEAD), an MSc in Economics (ICADE), and an MA in Law (UNED).