Enrique Feás Costilla

Independent ICO Board Member

Enrique Feás is Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute, Associate Professor at IE University and the IE School of Global and Public Affairs as well as an independent consultant. He is member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and member of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club’s Committee for Reflection on Internationalization.

He holds a degree in Business Economics and is a Spanish State Economist and Trade Expert (on leave of absence). He has previously been Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Spanish Embassies in Egypt and the Philippines, Deputy Director for Trade Policy with Mediterranean Countries, Africa and the Middle East, Executive Board Member of España Expansión Exterior, member of the FIEX-FONPYME Executive Committee of COFIDES, Advisor for International Affairs to the Vice-President and Minister of Economy and Technical Advisor at the Deputy Directorate of Foreign Sector Studies.

 He is founder and co-editor of the economic policy blog BlogNewDeal.com and co-author of the book La Unión hace la fuerza: Europa ante los desafíos del siglo XXI (Strength through the Union: Europe facing the challenges of the 21st century), published by Deusto.