Team

Holder of a PhD in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Santa Croce (Roma). She has worked as a lecturer and researcher in both Italy and Spain.

She joined the Institute as a researcher in 2005 and has directed it since 2012. Since 2013, she has directed the Intergenerational Solidarity within the Family Chair (IsFamily Santander Chair) and, since 2017, the Joaquim Molins Figueras Foundation’s Childcare and Family Policies Chair. She is also vice-dean of Teaching Staff and Research in the Faculty of Law at UIC Barcelona. 

She has published seven books and over fifty articles in her field of study.

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Journalism from the University of Navarra and a PhD in Business Administration from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

She has worked for a number of media as well as the International Centre for Work and Family (ICWF) at IESE Business School. She has published six books and a host of articles on the situation of women in the job market, work-family balance and family policies.

She is currently director of the Family Policies Observatory, responsible of communication of the Institute and member of the IsFamily Santander Chair and the Childcare and Family Policies Chair (Joaquim Molins Figueras Foundation).

Mr Vidal-Quadras has been the Assistant Director of the IESF since 2005. He is a lawyer and a co-founder of Amat & Vidal-Quadras solicitors, where he exercices his profession. He is the General Secretary of the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), a federation which has been awarded with a General Consultative Status by the UN, and Vice-president of the FERT Association, in Barcelona, dedicated to Family Guidance.

He is the author of two educational books: Después de amar te amaré on love in marriage and Un paseo en bicicleta por la vida which deals with the issue education in feelings, as well as three works of fiction.

Ms Tierz holds a degree in law from the University of Zaragoza. She is a lawyer who specialises in family-related issues. She has a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family in the University of Navarra.

She joined the IESF in 2005, and was involved in designing the Postgraduate Degree in marriage and Family Education programme. She has been a Coordinator and tutor on this Postgraduate programme from the beginning.

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Management from ESADE, a master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences from the Pompeu Fabra University and a master’s degree in Business Management from ESADE. Holder of a PhD in Social Policies from the University of Edinburgh.

He has worked in a number of companies and as a researcher in the International Centre for Work and Family (ICWF) at the IESE Business School.

He is currently a research fellow in the Women and Public Policy Program (Harvard University) and a researcher for the Childcare and Family Policies Chair (Joaquim Molins Figueras Foundation). His research interests lie in the role of the father, work-family balance, childcare and family policies.