Ignacio De La Vega currently serves as the Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Faculty and Internationalization at Tecnológico de Monterrey. De la Vega also leads the large Entrepreneurship Center (IEEGL) TEC wide.

Previously, and for almost four years, he served as Dean of EGADE Business School and Dean of the Undergraduate Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey, serving some 19,000 students and 1,500 faculty members. 

During his tenure, EGADE designed and implemented the bold EGADE 2025 Vision with a focus on the complete turnaround of the school´s portfolio; strengthened the faculty with a recruiting and development strategy; increased research output by three-fold; implemented an ecosystem of Strategic Centers aligned with relevant knowledge and practice involving industry financing and fund-raising; redesigned the executive education operation with new delivery and content strategies; launched alternative learning as an edtech project to test innovative non degree products and increased internationalisation and positioning of the School, reinforcing its LATAM leadership.

Prior to this, De La Vega served as Chief Learning Officer for the global bank BBVA. He was also the Director of Strategic Management and Chair of Madrid’s IE Business School’s Entrepreneurship Department and International Center for Entrepreneurship and Ventures Development, which he founded in 1998. 

De La Vega has been a Senior Faculty member at IE Business School and has been teaching entrepreneurial management and business strategy for more than 25 years in Business Schools and universities in more than 30 countries. He also served as Director of the Babson Global Centers of Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Middle East, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and expansion of centres in the Middle East and around the world. During his tenure, Babson led the launch of two private universities in Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. 

His research addresses the role of informal investment in the availability of funding resources for start-ups, a topic he defended in his PhD dissertation. He served for two periods as global Chairman of the GEM consortium, the largest study of entrepreneurship in the world, and started and developed GEM in Spain and Middle East. Besides his private sector positions, De La Vega has served at the Spanish government, holding several leadership positions. He has authored three books on entrepreneurial management and publishes frequently in the media.  

In 2020 he was nominated Educator of the Year by the Academy of International Business (AIB) and he has served and is currently engaged in different Boards at AACSB, EFMD and AMBA. 

He has a PhD from IE University in Spain, a law degree from Universidad Complutense in Spain and a master’s in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts and Harvard University. In addition, he has participated in shorter programmes at Harvard Business School, Babson College and Harvard Law School.