Manuel Muñiz

Manuel Muñiz Villa (born 19 May 1983) is a Spanish lawyer, academic administrator, and International Relations scholar. From 2017 to 2020 he served as Dean of the IE School of Global and Public Affairs (IE University) in Madrid, Spain. He currently serves as Secretary of State for Global Spain in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.

Manuel Muñiz
Secretary of State for Global Spain
Assumed office
7 February 2020
Preceded byIrene Lozano

Education

Manuel Muñiz began his studies at Runnymede College in Madrid.[1] He then completed a Juris Doctor and was accepted into the Madrid Bar.

Muñiz furthered his studies with a Master of Science in Financial Markets from the Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (2009) in Madrid and a Master in Public Administration at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Governmennt (2011).[2] In addition, he joined the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI) of Sciences Po in Paris, France, as a research fellow[3] in 2012 before completing a DPhil (PhD) in International Relations at the University of Oxford,[4] with a particular focus on European security and defence (2016).

Career
Muñiz at a conference at the Rafael del Pino Foundation.

In 2014, Muñiz joined the Fundación Rafael del Pino in Madrid, Spain as Director of the Foundation’s Global Leadership Program with the goal of training Spanish leaders in the field of global affairs.[5] In 2015, he worked as a consultant for the UN Support Mission in Libya and provided advice on security matters.

From 2015 to 2017, Muñiz was the Director of the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs[2] and, between 2016 and 2017, he was also a lecturer on the geopolitical consequences of the rise of populism at Tufts University. During this time, he was selected by Esglobal as one of the 25 intellectuals redefining Iberoamerican thought.

Muñiz was subsequently appointed a Senior Associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.[6], where he was one of the promoters of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, aimed at strengthening the University’s capacities for teaching, research, and policy on the relationship between the United States and Europe.

In 2017, Dr. Muñiz became the Dean of the School of Global and Public Affairs[7] and founded the IE Centre for the Governance of Change[8] to examine the challenges exerted by accelerated societal and technological transformation on both the public and private sectors.

In January, 2020, the Council of Ministers of the Government of Spain approved Muñiz’s designation as Secretary of State for Global Spain, in replacement of Irene Lozano.[9][10][4] He assumed office on 7 February.[11] Once in office, he enlarged the Secretariat’s competences to include economic diplomacy and became part of the Committee of Experts advising the Spanish government on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research

Dr. Muñiz started his academic career working on European integration, with a particular focus on transatlantic relations, security and defence. He has also studied what he terms the “Anti-Elite Era”[12], the rise of populism, and the implosion of the International Liberal Order[13]. As part of that process of changes in the International Order he has looked at the role of China, and the Technological Cold War emerging between China and the United States[14].

Muñiz’s work has focused extensively on the impact of technology on the social contract and on the global order. His fundamental thesis is that rapid technological change has led to a fracturing of the social contract through the hollowing out of the Western middle class and, ultimately, the rise of populist politics[15]. He has openly called for the crafting of a new Social Contract for the Digital Era in which inequities are addressed and technological change is governed through foresight and the development of a science of anticipation.[16][17][18]

Essays

Muñiz, M. (2020). “Diplomacia económica para un nuevo Contrato Social,” (Economic Diplomacy for a New Social Contract), El País[19]

Muñiz, M. (2020).  “Tecnología y orden global,” (Technology and Global Order), Estudios de Politica Exterior, Issue 193, Enero/Febrero, pp. 2-14[20]

Muñiz, M. (2019). “Orden Global, Tecnología y la Geopolítica del Cambio,” (Global Order, Technology and the Geopolitics of Change), Anuario Internacional CIDOB, pp. 16-24[21]

Muñiz, M. (2019). “The Coming Technological Cold War,” Project Syndicate[22]

Muñiz, M. (2017). “Economic Growth is No Longer Enough,” Project Syndicate[23]

Muñiz, M., and Lastra, C. (2017). “Technological change, inequality and the collapse of the liberal order,” Economics, Discussion Paper[24]

Muñiz, M., Kaiser, K., Lastra, C., Meyer, H., and Torres, M. (2017). “Technological Change, Inequality and the Collapse of the Liberal Order,” G20 Insights, Policy Brief[25]

Muñiz, M. (2017). “El colapso del orden liberal,” (The Collapse of the Liberal Order), Estudios de Politica Exterior, Issue 175, Enero/Febrero, pp. 2-13

Muñiz, M. (2017). “Could Spain help fix Europe?,” The Washington Post[26]

Muñiz, M. (2016). “Populism and the Need for a New Social Contract,” Social Europe[27]

Muñiz, M. (2016). “La era anti-élites,” (The Anti-Elite Era), Estudios de Politica Exterior, Issue 172, Julio/Agosto, pp. 46-52[28]

Muñiz, M. (2016). “Brexit and the anti-elite era,” Europe’s World[29]

Muñiz, M., and LeGloannec, A.M (2014). ““Redefining the Transatlantic Security Relationship,” Transworld Working Paper, 38, pp. 1-29[30]

Monographs and book chapters

Muniz, M (2020). “A New Social Contract for the Digital Age,” in The Work Revolution, BBVA Open Mind, Turner, pp. 106-118[31]

Muniz, M (2019). “La Implosión del Orden Liberal,” (The Implosion of the Liberal Order), in “Gobernanza futura: hiperglobalización, mundo multipolar y Estados menguantes,” Cuaderno de Estrategia, 199, Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos[32]

Muniz, M (2018). “The Governance of Change: How Companies and Governments Should Adapt to Technological Disruption,” in  Iñiguez, Santiago and Kazuo, Ichijo eds. Business Despite Borders, Palgrave McMillan, pp. 21-33[33]

Muniz, M (2016). “Explaining security and defence integration: the case of Europe,” [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford[34]

gollark: Which is vaguely worrying for self-driving cars.
gollark: If your neural network is public, people could probably do !!FUN!! stuff like trick it into flagging regular stuff as evil offensiveness by tweaking a few pixels.
gollark: But those tend to have weird failure modes.
gollark: I mean, the NN is.
gollark: That's not automated.

References
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  5. "Manuel Muñiz Villa" (in Spanish). Fundación Rafael Del Pino. April 18, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  6. "Manuel Muñiz". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  7. Manuel Muñiz (September 10, 2018). "Changing for a better future; The School of Global and Public Affairs". IE School of Global Public Affairs. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  8. Diego Rubio (April 17, 2018). "No es la tecnología, sino su gobernanza, lo que salvará la democracia". El País Retina (in Spanish). Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  9. "El profesor Manuel Muñiz nuevo secretario de Estado de España Global". La Vanguardia. EFE. January 28, 2020.
  10. "Referencia del Consejo de Ministros". La Moncloa. January 28, 2020.
  11. "Laya anima al nuevo equipo a reforzar lazos y el lugar de España en el mundo". La Vanguardia. February 7, 2020.
  12. "Brexit Exemplifies The Anti-Elite Era – Manuel Muñiz". Social Europe. June 27, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  13. "El colapso del orden liberal". Política Exterior (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  14. Muñiz, Manuel (April 30, 2019). "The Coming Technological Cold War | by Manuel Muñiz". Project Syndicate. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  15. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH_2PwGblDA. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. Muñiz, Manuel (October 25, 2017). "Economic Growth Is No Longer Enough | by Manuel Muñiz". Project Syndicate. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  17. Muñiz, Manuel. "A New Social Contract for the Digital Age". OpenMind. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  18. Muñiz, Manuel (July 5, 2020). "Diplomacia económica para un nuevo contrato social". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  19. Muñiz, Manuel (July 5, 2020). "Diplomacia económica para un nuevo contrato social". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  20. "Tecnología y orden global". Política Exterior (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  21. "CIDOB - Orden global, tecnología y la geopolítica del cambio". CIDOB. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  22. Muñiz, Manuel (April 30, 2019). "The Coming Technological Cold War | by Manuel Muñiz". Project Syndicate. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  23. Muñiz, Manuel (October 25, 2017). "Economic Growth Is No Longer Enough | by Manuel Muñiz". Project Syndicate. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  24. "Technological change, inequality and the collapse of the liberal order — Economics E-Journal". www.economics-ejournal.org. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  25. "Technological Change, Inequality and The Collapse of the Liberal Order". G20 Insights (in German). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  26. "The Washington post". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  27. "Populism And The Need For A New Social Contract – Manuel Muñiz". Social Europe. October 11, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  28. "La era anti-élites". Política Exterior (in Spanish). Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  29. EPIC. "Brexit and the Anti-Elite Era". Friends of Europe. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  30. "Newsworld" (PDF). Newsworld.
  31. Muñiz, Manuel. "A New Social Contract for the Digital Age". OpenMind. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  32. "IEEE - Gobernanza futura: hiperglobalización, mundo multipolar y Estados menguantes". www.ieee.es. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  33. Iñiguez, Santiago; Ichijo, Kazuo, eds. (2018). Business Despite Borders: Companies in the Age of Populist Anti-Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-76305-7.
  34. Muniz, Manuel (2016). Explaining security and defence integration: the case of Europe (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text thesis). University of Oxford.
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