Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño speaks throughout this interview as a Visionary whose leadership is defined by a long-horizon commitment to reimagining education as a transformative social force. He recounts pioneering hybrid learning at IE more than 22 years before it became mainstream, arguing consistently that technology humanizes rather than diminishes education. He frames IE not around rankings but around cultivating cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial graduates prepared to improve the world. His interdisciplinary background in law, moral philosophy, and management informs a pluralistic view of knowledge and leadership, rejecting charisma in favor of competence, humility, and care. Iñiguez de Onzoño also articulates a bold vision for lifelong learning, insisting universities must serve adult learners as their primary future constituency. His planned 35-story vertical campus embodies his belief that physical and digital environments must evolve together to serve a global, diverse student body.
“Technology is a way to humanize education, to personalize the learning process. This is what we have discovered over the past 22 years of practicing these hybrid formats.”
“It's not charisma anymore. It's actually knowing your people, caring about your people, being competent and cultivated and committed.”
“Universities need to focus on the adult learners. They have to realize about the potential, the opportunity, but also the duty to train the adult population because it's going to become the major segment of learners.”
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