Ignasi López Verdeguer

Ignasi López Verdeguer

Barcelona, Spain
"La Caixa"​ Foundation
Director, Department of Science and Research

Working for "la Caixa" Banking Foundation in science related fields since 2000. Today contributing to coordinate its funding programmes of Research and Innovation, Fellowships and Science in Society - CosmoCaixa. He holds an extensive experience in Philanthropy of R&I, in Science and Innovation Policy and in Science in Society issues. He has been particularly active in the field of Responsible Research and Innovation as a leader of the EC funded project RRI Tools and as a participant and advisor in several H2020 projects. He is also Chairman of the ELSI Advisory Board of the EIT Health and a member of the Steering Committee of the Research Forum of the European Foundation Centre. He is a Physicist by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and holds a postgraduate degree in Management by IESE-Universidad de Navarra.