P E O P L E PROF. MAS TAKES ON NEW POSITION IN ADDITION TO HER ROLE AT IESE
Núria Mas to Join Bank of Spain’s Governing Council Prof. Núria Mas is one of six Bank of Spain council members.
a professor in IESE’s economics department, which she has headed up since 2016. Her focus area is the macroeconomics of health and she is the holder of the Jaime Grego Chair of Health-Care Management. Prof. Mas expressed gratitude toward IESE for “its support in allowing me to combine my different responsibilities.”
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Prof. Núria Mas takes on this new responsibility as a member of the governing council of the Bank of Spain with a commitment to “promote a strong and stable financial system and economy.” The Council of Ministers appointed her on March 24. Prof. Mas has a degree in economics from Pompeu Fabra University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Before joining IESE, she worked as an associate at the Lehman Brothers headquarters in London. Since 2003, she has been
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Mel Martínez, secretary of housing under George W. Bush and a descendant of Cuban immigrants, is one of the most influential Hispanics in the United States.
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entry system, but it is not true that we do not need workers,” explained Mel Martínez, former Republican senator and current chairman of the Southeast U.S. and Latin America for JPMorgan Chase. On March 22, he spoke to a group of alumni at the IESE campus in Madrid. Regarding economic policy, he pointed out that stimuli are needed to promote competitiveness. He also showed his strong support for the tax reform pledged by President Donald Trump “to prevent companies from offshoring,” and to “temper the regulatory overreaches applied to the financial system during the financial crisis of 2007.” As for the future of health care in the United States, he predicts three trends: more business for insurers, greater autonomy of the states to regulate that business and more subsidies for the underprivileged to get insurance.
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