Diego Rubio is Professor of Practice at IE University and the Executive Director of its Center for the Governance of Change, an applied-research institution that help companies, governments and multilaterals to understand, anticipate, and manage innovation and its externalities in a variety of domains –political, economic, and societal.​

Diego has worked as lecturer and research fellow at the University of Oxford and has advised a number of organizations, including the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, the Ibero-American General Secretariat, and the Spanish Government. As scholar, he has lectured at several universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Singapore, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.​

Diego holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and a Master from the École Normale Supérieure LSH. He did his BA in Barcelona, graduating with the highest GPA of the country and obtaining the First National Award of Academic Excellence.