Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and labor, Minister for Industry and Energy in the Basque Government. Chairman of Enovatinglab,s.l. (enovatinglab.com) , Global Senior VP for Strategy and Board Director at Keralty Group (www.keralty.com).Wide experience in the academy, government, consulting, and business management. Founder and President of Enovatinglab, an innovative platform that generates ideas for the design, formulation, and implementation of strategies for business, governments, and community coopetitive strategies. Currently serves at different Board of Directors: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (Art and Culture), TECNALIA (Technological Corporation), Innobasque (Basque Innovation Agency). Former positions in the private sector include Managing Partner for Strategy and Public Services in Andersen and BearingPoint, CEO of Bilbao Stock Exchange, and CEO of Guascor-Dresser-Rand.Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of ORKESTRA (The Basque Institute for Competitiveness). Author and publisher of numerous articles, books, research work, and academic publications in Strategy and Competitiveness. Visiting professor at different Universities, member of the MOC (Microeconomics on Competitiveness) network at ISC-Harvard University.