Antonio Camuñas

President

Professional of reference on the field of institutional strategy, who has been on the rankings of Spaniards with major influence and has assess a great number of businessmen and the most relevant national & international enterprises.

After his term in Wall Street and the direction of the Chamber of Commerce of Spain-US, he founded Global Strategies, first firm in developing the concept of Corporate Diplomacy in Spain.

Through Global Strategies he has tightly cooperated with Top Management of the leading business groups in their corresponding sectors. Among them stands out Inditex group, for which he has been Executive Advisor for over 15 years, coinciding with the internationalization and going public process. He has worked along with other firms such as Acciona, Aguas de Valencia, Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ferroatlántica, General Electric, Gómez Acebo & Pombo, Iberdrola, Telecom Italia, ONO, OHL or Tous, as well as with national and autonomic governments and top institutions as Harvard University or UNICEF.

He was chosen European Emerging Leader by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, he is Máster de Oro from the Real Forum de Alta Dirección and has received the Award of ‘Premio Madrid Excelente a la Confianza de los Clientes’. In 2010 was selected as one of the 25 Spaniards with major international influence by the newspaper “El Mundo”.

Graduated in Law, lawyer at the ‘Ilustre Colegio de Madrid’, holds a diploma by the Law Faculty of Harvard University (P.I.L.) and by the Management Institute of New York University (NYU).

His career has been tightly linked to the US for the past 30 years, where he has developed numerous bilateral projects of different nature. In 2008, 25 years after his first stage in the institution, he was chosen president of the US-Spain Chamber of Commerce, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the institution.