Ángel Cabrera

Angel Cabrera is the twelfth president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cabrera arrived at Georgia Tech on Sept. 1, 2019, after serving for seven years as president of George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia.

Georgia Tech, one of the top 10 public research universities in the United States, boasts outstanding programs in business, computer science, design, engineering, liberal arts, and sciences. With 40,000 students and more than 170,000 alumni working in companies, industries, and public administrations around the world, Georgia Tech has been internationally recognized for the quality of its educational and research programs.

Under his leadership, more than 5,700 Georgia Tech community members contributed to a new 10-year strategic plan that was launched in November 2020. The plan is based on a new mission statement that reaffirms Tech’s commitment to “developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition.”

As president of Georgia Tech during the Covid-19 pandemic, he led the Institute at one of the most critical moments in its history to prioritize the health and safety of the Tech community and develop innovative solutions to combat the disease.

Under his leadership at GMU, the university accounted for more than half of all enrollment growth in Virginia, boosted student outcomes, and joined the top tier of research universities in the Carnegie Ranking. From 2004 to 2012, Cabrera was president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, now part of Arizona State University. Between 1998 and 2004, he was dean of the IE Business School in Madrid.

As a business educator, Cabrera has played a key role in advancing professional ethics, internationalization, and corporate social responsibility. In 2007, while working as a senior advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, he was the lead author of the “Principles for Responsible Management Education” (PRME). A United Nations-supported initiative that promotes sustainable development through management education, PRME has been adopted by more than 800 schools worldwide. He is also a co-founder of the University Global Coalition, a global network of universities working in partnership with the United Nations in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

He has been named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, a “Star of Europe” by Businessweek, a “Henry Crown Fellow” by the Aspen Institute, and a “Great Immigrant” by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has received honorary degrees from Miami Dade College and the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Cabrera serves on the boards of directors of the National Geographic Society, the Committee for Atlanta Progress, the Bankinter Foundation for Innovation, and the Atlanta Metropolitan Chamber.

Cabrera earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in cognitive psychology from Georgia Tech, where he attended as a Fulbright scholar. He is also a telecommunications engineer (bachelor’s and master’s degree in computer and electrical engineering) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has published extensively in academic journals and has been featured or quoted in major media outlets around the world.