Manuel Muñiz

Manuel Muñiz Villa (born 19 May 1983) is a Spanish lawyer, academic administrator, and International Relations scholar and is currently the Provost of IE University and Chair of the Board of the IE New York College[1] From 2017 to 2020 and from 2021 to 2024 he served as Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs (IE University) in Madrid, Spain, and was elected President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs.

[4] In addition, he joined the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI) of Sciences Po in Paris, France, as a research fellow[5] in 2012 before completing a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations at the University of Oxford,[6] with a particular focus on European security and defence (2016).

Before completing her post, he had begun the creation of the first country reputation action plan, which is intended to create the consensus and the tools to boost Spain's image abroad.

On July 11, 2021, he voluntarily resigned from the post of Secretary of State for Global Spain, following the announcement of the dismissal of the hitherto minister, Arancha González Laya.

His fundamental thesis is that rapid technological change has led to a fracturing of the social contract through the hollowing out of the Western middle class and, ultimately, the rise of populist politics.

[27] He has openly called for the crafting of a new Social Contract for the Digital Era in which inequities are addressed and technological change is governed through foresight and the development of a science of anticipation.

Muñiz at a conference at the Rafael del Pino Foundation.