Ángel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera is the 12th president of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). One of America’s fastest-growing and most research-intensive universities and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Georgia Tech serves nearly 48,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, business, science, computing, design, and liberal arts, plus thousands more through its professional and executive education programs. Georgia Tech is one of the top 20 universities in the nation in terms of research and development expenditures and is No. 1 among institutions without a medical school. Prior to Georgia Tech, Cabrera was president of George Mason University, Virginia’s largest public university, and leader of two business schools, Thunderbird School of Global Management (now part of Arizona State University) and IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. The first native of Spain to serve as president of an American university, Cabrera has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute, and Great Immigrant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He serves on the boards of the National Geographic Society, Harvard College Visiting Committee, Atlanta Committee for Progress, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and Bankinter Innovation Foundation in Spain. He is co-founder of the University Global Coalition, a global network of universities that works with the United Nations in support of its sustainability programs. Cabrera studied at Universidad Politécnica of Madrid and earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar.