Ángel Cabrera Izquierdo (born August 5, 1967) is a Spanish-American academic. He is the 12th and current president of the

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...

. Previously, he was the president of

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

and of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and the former dean of IE Business School. His scholarship includes work on learning, management and leadership. On June 13, 2019, Cabrera was announced as the new President at the

, a post he assumed on September 1, 2019. Cabrera is the first Spanish-born president of an American university.

Early life and education

Cabrera was born in Madrid, the second of four brothers. He received his

telecommunications engineering Telecommunications engineering is a subfield of electronics engineering which seeks to design and devise systems of communication at a distance. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments. A telecommunication eng ...

degree (equivalent to an undergraduate and masters in electrical and computer engineering in the American system) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in

cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, whi ...

from

as a Fulbright Scholar. He joined the faculty of IE Business School in 1998 and was dean from 2000 to 2004. He was appointed President of Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2004 and President of George Mason University in 2012.

Career

The

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named Cabrera a Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2002, a Young Global Leader in 2005 and chairman of the Global Agenda Council for promoting entrepreneurship in 2008. He was named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute in 2008 and a Great Immigrant by Carnegie Corporation in 2017. He is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and the

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. In 2014 he received an honorary degree from Miami-Dade College and in 2018 he received an honorary doctorate from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cabrera, Angel 1967 births Living people Presidents of Georgia Tech Presidents of George Mason University Georgia Tech alumni Academics from Madrid Polytechnic University of Madrid alumni Spanish academics Spanish emigrants to the United States Henry Crown Fellows Members of the Inter-American Dialogue