Manuel Muñiz
Manuel Muñiz Villa is a Spanish lawyer, academic administrator, and international affairs scholar. From 2017 to 2020 he served as Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs in Madrid, Spain. He serves as Secretary of State for Global Spain in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation since 2020.Education
He studied at the Runnymede College in La Moraleja. Muñiz earned a licentiate degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2004. Three years later, in 2007, he obtained the title of Juris Doctor and was accepted into the Madrid Bar.
Hin 2009, Muñiz was awarded a Master of Science in Financial Markets from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles in Madrid. In 2011, he received a Master in Public Administration at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Governmennt. In 2012, he entered the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris, France, as a research fellow.
Muñiz earned a DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford, for a dissertation on European security and defence in 2016.Career
Beginning in 2014, he has held a position at the Fundación Rafael del Pino in Madrid, Spain, where he has been the Director of the Program on Global Leadership.
In addition, he also joined Tufts University as a lecturer on populism and diplomacy in 2015 and was appointed Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. That year, he also acted as a consultant for the United Nations in Tunisia vis-à-vis the peace efforts in neighbouring Libya.
In 2017, he was appointed a Senior Associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
In 2017, Muñiz also became the Dean of the School of International Relations at the Instituto de Empresa, now the School of Global and Public Affairs. He was also the founding director of the IE Centre for the Governance of Change.
On January 12, 2020, the Council of Ministers of the Government of Spain announced his appointment as Secretary of State for Global Spain in replacement of Irene Lozano. He assumed office on 7 February.
