Itziar de Ros (ADE'02) visited School to present IESE's Young Talent program, which is looking for students with good grades and extracurricular interests to join a pre-admission pathway for the University of Navarra business school's full-time MBA program.

Itziar de Ros recommended that students "draw up a strategy for degree program professional", so that they can build up stages towards a more ambitious goal . Her own career is a good example of this commitment.

The current director of IESE's Admissions Office finished her programs of study in Business Administration and Management in 2002, and although she recognizes that she tried to choose the maximum issue of subjects in English available at the time and to select some subjects related to Law, she points out that bilingual double Degrees had not yet been introduced: "That's exactly what I tried to do, although now with the pathway already marked.

With "great memories" about professors and "life at campus", he also acknowledges some "small frustrations", such as not getting "as good grades as at high school, at least until the final years".

She recalls that when she finished she knew she wanted to go to IESE, but in addition to good grades, the business school requires at least two years of experience, some of it international. So he went to Oxford to work for a hairdresser's shampoo distribution company, business . "I went for six months and stayed for two years," she recalls. It was in London that she finally interviewed for the IESE MBA.

After studying part of postgraduate program at campus in New York, she joined the multinational company Dupont, where she worked in marketing and sales at area , for which she had to relocate to Geneva. After a year in Switzerland, life took her back to IESE, but this time as director of the Alumni Office, where she was in charge of strategic marketing and institutional development issues.

core topic Her international experience, the field where IESE focuses its promotion efforts since 80 percent of its students are of foreign origin, led to her appointment in July 2011 as director of Admissions Office at the business school. She now coordinates a team of 12 people from Singapore, Germany, Poland... who also work in locations around the world. But as she says, "the only thing that is difficult to understand each other is getting our schedules to coincide: all meetings have to be at 3 p.m. in Spain".