Casanueva Carlos | ESCP Business School

Carlos Casanueva

Associate Professor of Finance and Leadership

Department : Finance
Campus : Madrid

Carlos Casanueva is Associate Professor in the Finance Department and EMBA Local Aca-demic Director at the Madrid campus. He joined ESCP in September 2015 as an Associate Professor. He teaches at the ESCP Bachelor, MIM, MBA, and EMBA programs. Since 2008, he has collaborated with Professor Stewart D. Friedman from The Wharton School, develop-ing Total Leadership in Spain and Europe. He is also a founding partner of OpSeeker and BeWay, start-up companies founded and managed by ESCP alumni. At Nationale Neder-landen in Spain, he was an Independent Director Member of the Board and President of the Audit Committee from 2016 to 2020. His main research interests are Financial Markets and Leadership. Carlos’ career has primarily been in the private sector, with almost 15 years of experience as an executive in the Spanish financial sector. His last position before 2015 was as General Manager and Board Member at Santander Seguros, part of Grupo Santander. From 1998 to 2003, at Citibank Spain, he was a member of the Executive Committee responsible for Strat-egy, Marketing, and Products. He also served on the Board of Visa España, Servired, Citigestión, Citipensión, and Citioperaciones. From 1994 to 1998, he worked at Banco Cen-tral Hispano, ultimately as Deputy Managing Director. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Arthur Young, and a Systems Engineer at Iberia Airlines. He also worked as a student trainee at Procter & Gamble. In 1986, Carlos earned his MSc in Industrial Engineering from UPM, ranking first in his specialty. In 1991, he graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School with a Fulbright Scholarship. He completed his PhD with honors, cum laude, in Financial Markets from UPM in 2007. Carlos started his academic career from 2003 to 2009 as a full-time professor at the UPM Business Administration Department.

PUBLICATIONS

Spain, the Best Health System in the World?

ESCP Impact Papers, 2020-60-EN

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Conference Proceedings

2024

Financial Enlightenment of the Entrepreneurship Dark Side from the Experience in Spain

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

How to use learnings from behavioral finance theory to lead change and improve democracy in future turbulent times in Spain and in the European Union

Conference Proceedings

2023

Eudaimonic Leadership: The Why and How of building a company that nudges towards being the best version of oneself

Conference Proceedings

2023

Leadership and Human Values to Make the Change in the Right Direction in the Modern Service Oriented Society

Media

2022

Leadership and life in the age of longevity

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

Leadership and business dilemmas that emerge when teaching finance under the new light of sustainability

Media

2021

Leadership and business dilemmas teaching finance under the new light of sustainability

Media

2021

Las finanzas bajo la nueva luz de la sostenibilidad

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

Covid19 organizational leadership vaccine at Aegon

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

Spain, the Best Health System in the World?

Research and expertise

News

How to Improve Women’s Representation in Finance