Luisa Alemany

 

Luisa Alemany is an Associate Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School. She is also a Fellow at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. She was formerly at ESADE Business School and a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her main areas of interest are Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurial Education, Business Angels and Venture Philanthropy. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics and Business from Universidad Complutense (Madrid).

Luisa began her career at Procter & Gamble in Madrid. She subsequently worked for McKinsey & Co in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon. Later, she worked at Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division, in the venture capital fund Europ@Web and as a Senior Associate of the American private equity fund The Carlyle Group in its European buyout team.

Luisa was the director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute for nine years (2009-2017) and the academic sponsor of ESADE BAN (Business Angels Network), awarded the Best BAN in Europe in 2016. She is a director on the board of Newton Venture Program, a JV between LBS and LocalGlobe to bring diversity to the venture ecosystem. She sits on the investment committee of a deep tech scaleup venture capital fund in Spain and of impact investing Oxfam EDP fund. She is an advisor to two European investors with Fund of Fund vehicles (one investing in Europe and the other in Emerging Markets). In May 2023 she launched MELBA, Middle East LBS Business Angels, in Dubai. She was part of Rising Tide Europe I and II, the first European Women-only business angels’ fund. She is a member of the Academic Board of EBAN, the European Business Angels Network.

Her research has been published in top journals, including Harvard Business Review, and she has written several books,  such as the award-winning “Entrepreneurial Finance: The Art and Science of Growing Ventures” (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the first European textbook on the topic that awarded “Most Promising New Textbook” in 2021 by TTA.   

She has taught at the Master of Science, MBA and executive education level in different programs in London, Oxford, Barcelona, Madrid, Dubai, Amsterdam, Milan, Miami, Mexico and Shanghai. She received the Best Teacher Award 2017, ESADE’s Executive Master in Finance and two of her case studies Barcelona base “Scytl” and Uganda social enterprise “Banapads” were honoured with Case Awards by EFMD.