Ángel Cabrera became the 12th president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019, after serving for seven years as President of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
From 2004 to 2012, Cabrera served as president at Thunderbird School of Global Management, now part of Arizona State University. Between 1998 and 2004, he was dean of IE Business School in Madrid.
As a business educator, Cabrera has played a key role in advancing professional ethics, internationalization, and corporate social responsibility. In 2007, while serving as a senior advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, he was the lead author of the “Principles for Responsible Management Education” (PRME). He is also a co-founder of the University Global Coalition, a global network of universities working in partnership with the UN in support of the SDGs.
Cabrera serves on the boards of the National Geographic Society and the Metro Atlanta Chamber. He’s been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has received honorary degrees from Miami Dade College and Universidad Politécnica of Madrid.
Cabrera earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Georgia Tech, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. He also holds a telecommunications engineering degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain).