Waya Quiviger first joined IE Business School as Managing Director of the International MBA program. From 2009 to 2018, she was the Executive Director of the Master in International Relations. She is currently a Professor of Practice of Global Governance and Development and the Executive Director of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative at IE School of Global and Public Affairs. Waya is also the lead coordinator of the annual Transatlantic Conference in collaboration with Johns Hopkins SAIS, Sciences Po and Yale University. Waya Quiviger holds an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master in International Management from the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (CA).
Prior to joining IE, Waya worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland as Manager of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLTs), a community of outstanding young leaders, many of them social entrepreneurs. She has also consulted for the Women’s Forum and the Club de Madrid. Ms. Quiviger teaches Global Governance & International Organizations and Aid, Development and Social Entrepreneurship in various undergraduate and graduate programs including the BIR, BBABIR, BIEBIR, the Master in International Relations, the Master in Management and Global Online MBA, as well as a sustainable business course in the Master in International Development. She also gives master classes on sustainable development and social entrepreneurship for corporate partners as well as IE alumni around the world. From 2015-2023, Waya was the sole lecturer in the annual IE Brown Summer Program in Segovia. In addition, Waya regularly appears on France 24 to comment EU and French politics and publishes in international media including Expansión and the China Daily. She is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching. Her research interests include social innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development, global governance, intergovernmental institutions and international relations. Waya is a member of the Spanish Leadership Network of the Fundación Rafael del Pino.
