The Institute business and Humanism (IEH) has renewed its management committee

Iñaki Vélaz has been appointed director, replacing Jaume Aurell, who continues as a member of IEH's board of trustees .

Raquel Lázaro and Álvaro Lleó take over as deputy directors of high school. They replace Javier Nanclares, who will continue to run the doctoral program in Governance and Culture of Organisations, and Eduardo Herrera, who continues as manager of development and International Office of high school.

Leire Uribeetxebarria continues as administrative assistant of the board. 

Iñaki Vélaz is graduate at Philosophy (1987) and holds a PhD in Business Administration (1994) from our University. He currently teaches Theory of the business and Advanced People Management. He is also partner at Assentire Consulting and a trustee of the Perspectivas del workFoundation. For the last three academic years, he has been manager of area of Companies of high school business and Humanism. Previously, he was director general manager of Vialogoscopio, partner founder of Systematic Innovation by Design and director of the Centre of Excellence of Caja Navarra and, later, of Banca Cívica.

He has taught at the universities of Deusto, UPV-EHU, Esden, McGill (Canada), Caixanova and ADEN (Argentina). He was Associate Dean at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC). Author of several books and monographs on management, he is interested in the relationship between corporate purpose and purpose staff , human flourishing, teleworking and the future of work. 

Raquel Lázaro holds a BA (1994) and PhD (2000) in Philosophy from our University, with an extraordinary award on both occasions. Professor at Philosophy, her research has focused on Scottish Enlightenment and Early Modernity (16th-17th centuries). The topics she has worked on include anthropological and ethical questions: the idea of man and work in Adam Smith's moral Philosophy , the passions in Descartes' morality, identity in Montaigne, and questions of the Scottish Enlightenment concerning the articulation between politics, morality and religion.

He participates in the group of research of Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) "Religion and Civil Society". In this field, he has worked on the concept of the sacred, religious freedom in a secularized context, the articulation between faith and reason in early modernity, and the relationship between religion and violence.

He has spent time at research at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), Sorbonne (Paris) and Boston College (USA). She has held various government positions at department of Philosophy. She has also been director of programs of study of the School of Philosophy and Letters.

Álvaro Lleó management is an Industrial Engineer (2006), Industrial Organisation Engineer (2008) and PhD in Business Administration (2011) from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is currently a lecturer at Personnel Management Service in Degree and in master's degrees at School of Economics and Tecnun.

In 2020 he was scholarship recipient Fulbright and Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He has also been a Fellow Researcher at Harvard University's RCC (2014) and a Visiting Scholar at Bentley University (2010 and 2018).

He is currently researching the implementation of the corporate purpose where he is the researcher principal of the "Purpose Strength Project". He is also the academic director of the University's university mentoring programme, "Tu&Co".

The board of the School of Economics would like to thank Jaume Aurell, Javier Nanclares and Eduardo Herrera for their years of service in the board of high school, in which they have contributed very notably to its development, promoting the training activities as well as the research, and facilitating with their good work an excellent insertion in the team of the School. Fortunately, they will continue to collaborate with high school in other areas.