New deputy directors and director of development at ISSA School of Applied Management

Cóilín Ó hAodha and Beatriz Fuertes, who will be in charge of Students, have been appointed deputy directors of ISSA School of Applied Management by president María Iraburu. Mila Laquidain will be the new director of development. They replace professors Mari Carmen Erviti and Ana Belén Martínez at position , and Antonio María Fernández, who has been appointed Deputy Director of the University of Navarra's development Service.

Cóilín Ó hAodha, who will combine the position with the direction of the institute of modern languagesis graduate in Humanities and Social Sciences from University College Dublin (1998), Master's Degree in Translation from the University of Birmingham (2011) and diploma holder in management Projects from Dublin Business School (2018). He will study the PDG at IESE in 2024. He joined the University in 2005 as an English teacher at institute of modern languages. He has also taught teaching at Schools in Communication and Law, and at ISSA. He was director of programs of study of institute of modern languages from 2009 to 2014, when he was appointed director.           

Beatriz Fuertes has a degree in Law from the University of Deusto (1992) and completed the Master's Degree in Law from business of the University (1995) and the PDG from IESE (2018). She joined to work at the University in 2017 as an assistant at General Manager. Since 2021 she has been the programs of study coordinator of the School of Education and Psychology. She has collaborated in the team coordinator of the Strategy 2025 and of the project Compass of the Vice-Rectorate for Students.

Mila Laquidain is a graduate in programs of study English by UNED (2021). From 2004 to 2015 she worked in the department administration and management of international programs at the Foundation business (FEUN). In 2016 she joined Admissions Office, where she has worked in the management of programs Master's Degree, in the coordination of international delegates and in the coordination of promotion projects.  

With these appointments, the board Board of Directors of ISSA School of Applied Management is as follows:

• Victoria Rodríguez, Director

• Cóilín Ó hAodha, Deputy Director

• Beatriz Fuertes, Deputy Director of Students

• Susana Aulestiarte, General Manager

• Mila Laquidain, director of development

Acknowledgements

Victoria Rodríguez, Director of ISSA School of Applied Management, wanted to thank the work and performance of Mari Carmen Erviti as Deputy Director of Office of Academic Affairs and academic staff, Ana Belén Martínez as Deputy Director of Students, and Antonio María Fernández as director of development:

"Mari Carmen Erviti has been a fundamental pillar in the development of ISSA; ensuring the maintenance of the roots of the center, she has led the renewal of the Study program of the Degree in management Applied and played a decisive role in the projection of the new program of postgraduate program". He also highlights his "capacity for service, good judgment and analytical vision".

"In addition to her commitment and generous dedication to the students, Ana Belén Martínez has successfully taken on projects such as the monitoring of first-year students, which has considerably reduced the withdrawal rate of the center; she has promoted the project mentoring program, promoting the training of mentors; and she has contributed to the development of the pillars of the training integral of project Universitas."

"With his meticulous work , Antonio María Fernández has managed to maintain the growing trend in issue of students in Degree, has consolidated the area of development establishing new international agreements and has structured the area of employment of the center."