Eduardo Olier has a PhD in Telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a diploma from Harvard Business School. He taught mathematicss at the ETSI de Telecomunicación de Madrid, and has held various positions at ESA, Repsol, the industrial group BBVA, Deloitte Consulting, NEC, Bearing Point and Korn Ferry. He is head of department of Geoeconomy and International Strategy at the Universidad CEU San Pablo, president of the thinktank Instituto Choiseul España and of the Instituto Empresa y Humanismo at the Univeristy of Navarra, and sits on the board of several internacional companies.