Ángel Cabrera, next President of George Mason University

BS and MS in engineering from UPM, is currently chairman of the Thunderbird School of Global Management and from now on the sixth president of George Mason University in Virginia, USA.

The George Mason University Board of Visitors (BOV) has unanimously selected Dr. Ángel Cabrera to serve as the next president of George Mason University.

Dr. Cabrera, 44, is currently president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, ranked consistently as the leading school of international business in the world. He has served in this capacity since 2004. Prior to joining Thunderbird, Dr. Cabrera was professor and dean at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, from 1998 to 2004, often listed by the international media among the top European business schools, explains the institution.

“After eight wonderful years at Thunderbird, I am honored to have been asked to lead one of the most innovative institutions in American higher education,” says Dr. Cabrera. “I am humbled to follow in the footsteps of a great educator and leader, President Alan Merten, and I look forward to working with such a talented community of faculty and administrators.”

“As chair of the search committee that recommended Dr. Cabrera, I could not be more excited at the prospect that he will be our institution’s next chief executive,”- says Lovey Hammel, BOV member and chair of the search committee- “Dr. Cabrera brings with him an impressive global vision, an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit in keeping with Mason’s, and an impressive commitment to collaboration.”

Dr. Cabrera is a recognized global leader and management educator whose work and expertise have been tapped by top international organizations. Dr. Cabrera earned his PhD and MS from Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BS and MS in engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain’s premier engineering school. He has also written numerous papers in leading academic journals and presented at conferences. His book “Being Global: How to Think, Act and Lead in a Transformed World” will be published this spring by Harvard Business Review Press.

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http://news.gmu.edu/articles/8287