Licenciado en Ingeniería Industrial. Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona
Interest Areas
Strategic Management
Leadership and Management in NGOs and other not-for-profit organizations
Interaction and co-operation between companies and NGOs
Corporate Social Responsibility
Institutional Philanthropy
Globalization and Poverty Eradication
Biography
Ignasi Carreras Fisas is an Industrial Engineer (UPC) and a graduate in Business Management and Organization (EAE). He has taken postgraduate courses in executive development at ESADE (Senior Executive Programme) and at Babson Business School, and in leadership and management of not-for-profit organizations at Stanford and Harvard Universities.
He is the Director of ESADE's Institute for Social Innovation. The Institute is devoted to generating and circulating knowledge and to providing training in the spheres of corporate social responsibility, the ethics of organizations, leadership and management of NGOs, and co-operation between companies and NGOs.
He is also a lecturer in ESADE's Department of Business Policy, where he specializes in strategy, leadership and management of change in organizations, and Director of ESADE's Executive Education programmes: Managerial Function in NGOs and Leadership and Innovation in Civil Society Organizations.
He also does voluntary work for various international organizations, NGOs and foundations. He is member of the international board of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He is also member of the board of trustees of Lealtad Foundation, Jaume Bofill Foundation, Cristianisme i Justícia Foundation and Fundació Borja de Bioètica. He also takes part in the advisory council of other civil society organizations.
He was Director General of Intermón Oxfam, one of the main international NGOs dedicated to co-operation and development (1988-2005), and a member of the Management Committee of Oxfam International. Previously (1981-1988), he worked for the Generalitat (Autonomous Government) of Catalonia and for the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in charge of the various programmes related to energy saving. He has also worked as a consultant on this subject for several companies.
He has a long history of voluntary work for various NGOs in different spheres of activity (children, the elderly, underprivileged groups, the handicapped, immigration, international co-operation, etc. He was a founder of the Casal dels Infants del Raval and of the organization Recollim (linked to Cáritas).
He has authored the book Vivir solidariamente [Living in Solidarity] (Planeta & Círculo de Lectores), several book chapters ('Los nuevos retos de la lucha contra la pobreza', 'El compromiso con los otros', 'Vidas en claves solidarias', 'Comercio justo, consumo responsable') and articles for the media and other publications.
He was born in Barcelona in 1957, is married to Marita Osés and has two children: Tom and Román.
Selected publications
Carreras, I. & Farré, A. (2006). Los nuevos retos de la lucha contra la pobreza. In J. Nogué & J. Romero (coords.) (Ed.). Las otras geografías (pp. 53-80). Valencia: Tirant lo Blanc.[ISBN: 84-8456-663-3]
Carreras, I. (2004). Por un comercio justo - consumo responsable. In Cristianisme i Justícia (Ed.). Consumo... luego existo (pp. 18-24). Barcelona, Espanya: Cuadernos CJ.
Carreras, I. (2003). El compromís amb l¿altre en el dia a dia del cristià. Ser cristià en la vida quotidiana (pp. 123-136). Barcelona, Espanya: Claret.
Carreras, I. & Osés, M. (2002). Vivir solidariamente. Barcelona: Planeta.
