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Belén Villalonga

  • William R. Berkley Professor in Management and Finance

Joined Stern 2012

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belen.villalonga@stern.nyu.edu

Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street, 7-21

New York, NY 10012

About Belén Villalonga

Belén Villalonga is the William R. Berkley Professor in Management and Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Between 2001 and 2012 she was a faculty member at the Harvard Business School.

Professor Villalonga’s work focuses on family business, corporate strategy and corporate governance. She has written several articles on how family ownership and control influence firms’ governance and strategy and, ultimately, their performance. She has also studied extensively the area of corporate diversification. She has developed and taught courses and programs for graduate and undergraduate students as well as for executives and business families. Her award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals, has been cited about 20,000 times in scholarly articles, and has been featured in the leading international media outlets.

Professor Villalonga serves or has served as an independent director on the board of several companies that are global leaders in their respective industries: Técnicas Reunidas (engineering); Ferroglobe (mining & metallurgy); Mapfre USA (insurance); Banco Santander International (private banking); Grifols (biopharma); Acciona (renewable energy & infrastructure); and Talgo (high-speed trains).

She holds a Ph.D. in Management and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a second Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and French, and conversant in Portuguese and Italian.

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