Jordi Gual Solé, born in Lleida in 1957, has been Chairman of CaixaBank since 2016. Before assuming this responsibility, he was Executive Director of Strategic Planning and Studies at CaixaBank and General Director of Planning and Strategic Development at CriteriaCaixa. He joined the "la Caixa" group in 2005. He holds a PhD in Economics (1987) from the University of California (Berkeley), is a Professor of Economics at IESE Business School and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. He has been an Economic Advisor in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission in Brussels and a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Repsol and Erste Bank. He is a member of the Market Monitoring Group of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). He is also a member of the Council of the European Corporate Governance Institute, President of FEDEA, Vice-President of the Cercle d'Economia and a member of the Boards of Trustees of the CEDE Foundation, CIC Cultural Institution, Real Instituto Elcano and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. In 1999 he was awarded the European Investment Bank research prize, and in 1979 the Extraordinary Degree Prize in Economic and Business Sciences.
