Waya Quiviger
Professor of Practice & Executive Director, Transatlantic Relations Initiative, IE University
Waya Quiviger first joined IE Business School as Managing Director of the International MBA program. From 2009 to 2018, she was the Executive Director of the Master in International Relations. She is currently a Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative at IE School of Global and Public Affairs. Waya was also the lead coordinator of the annual Transatlantic Conference in collaboration with the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Fundación Rafael del Pino. Waya Quiviger holds an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master in International Management from the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (CA).
Prior to joining IE, Waya worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland as Manager of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLTs), a community of outstanding young leaders, many of them social entrepreneurs. She has also consulted for the Women’s Forum and the Club de Madrid. Ms. Quiviger teaches Global Governance & International Organizations and Aid, Development and Social Entrepreneurship in various undergraduate and graduate programs including the Master in International Relations, the Master in Management and Global Executive MBA, as well as a Partnership and Multi-Stakeholder Engagement course in the Master in International Development. She also gives master classes on sustainable development and social entrepreneurship for corporate partners as well as IE alumni around the world. Every year, Waya is the sole lecturer in the IE Brown Summer Program in Segovia. In addition, Waya regularly publishes in international media including Expansión and the China Daily. She is the recipient of multiple awards for outstanding teaching. Her research interests include social innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development, global governance, intergovernmental institutions and international relations. Waya is a member of the Spanish Leadership Network of the Fundación Rafael del Pino.