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Panel Speakers
Alberto Ribera - Adjunct Professor, IESE Business School & Visiting Professor and Co-Director of
the Executive MBA, Nile University (Cairo)
Ph.D. in Economics, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Doctor in Medicine,
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona - Specialist in Social and Preventive Medicine
(Mental Health), Università di Roma La Sapienza.
He joined IESE in 2003 after a 15-year career in development co-operation especially in Middle East, Africa,
Southeast Asia and Caucasus. From1999 to 2003 he was Director General of the Euro Arab Management
School (Granada), a joint project of the European Commission and the Arab League.
He teaches leadership and self-leadership both at MBA and executive programs, and a course on Geopolitics
for International Careers. He is the author of 9 books, and more than 30 case-studies. His interests are
primarily: personality of managers and character development, the overlapping area between coaching and
therapy, and positive leadership especially regarding the contribution of business to peace in Middle East
and other conflict zones.
He has delivered seminars and conferences in universities and companies of more than 30 different countries.
He is currently a board member of the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Rome), Institute for
Interdisciplinary Studies (Zurich), Harambee Foundation (Nairobi) and other not-for-profit institutions.
David Risher, WorldReader
David Risher is the President and Co-Founder of Worldreader.org. Worldreader’s mission
is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of
people to improve their lives. The organization identifies schools, trains teachers, works
with communities, and partners with publishers to bring millions of books to underserved children and families
in the developing world. As a General Manager at Microsoft and later Amazon.com’s Senior Vice President of US
Retail, David has been at the forefront of technology; as a Professor at the University of Washington’s Business
School, President of Benjamin Franklin International School’s Board, and member of ESADE Business School’s
International Advisory Board, he has been deeply involved in education at all levels. David holds a degree in
Comparative Literature from Princeton University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and speaks English,
French, Spanish, and Catalan.
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