{"id":2957,"date":"2025-06-19T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/school-sociology\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:34:18","slug":"laura-guitart-takes-office-as-dean-of-the-faculty-of-economics-and-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/school-sociology\/laura-guitart-takes-office-as-dean-of-the-faculty-of-economics-and-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Guitart takes office as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"Laura Guitart Tarr\u00e9s, tenured professor in the Department of Business, director of the UB Chair of Family Business, and until now Academic Vice-Dean, has taken office as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona in a ceremony held at the historic building on 19 June 2025.<\/p>\n

Guitart Tarr\u00e9s is a researcher with the Business Research Group (SGR 0361), head of the Teaching Innovation Group on Learning Tools in Business Management (G\u00b7IDEA), and co-director of the Executive MBA lifelong learning programme. Outside academia, she also serves on the Board of Trustees of the CARES Foundation, an organisation that promotes job opportunities for people with disabilities and those at risk of social exclusion.
\nAt the same ceremony, the new vice-deans and the Faculty secretary also took office:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Academic Vice-Dean: M\u00f2nica Pigem Vigo
\n\u2022 Vice-Dean for Research, Doctoral Studies, and Social Impact: Pere Calleja Cort\u00e9s
\n\u2022 Vice-Dean for Students, Employability, and Teaching Innovation: Esther Vay\u00e1 Valcarce
\n\u2022 Vice-Dean for International Relations: Marta Panad\u00e9s Guerrero
\n\u2022 Vice-Dean for Teaching, Teaching Resources, and Sustainability: Pilar L\u00f3pez-Jurado Gonz\u00e1lez
\n\u2022 Academic Secretary: Montse Sim\u00f3 Solsona<\/p>\n

The new team led by Laura Guitart Tarr\u00e9s aims to position the Faculty of Economics and Business as a benchmark in university-level teaching and research. They will work intensively to address the main current challenges, such as: designing the new strategic plan and the upcoming reaccreditation of the Faculty; attracting, recruiting, and supporting the academic careers of young faculty members to ensure generational renewal; efficient management of space and adaptation to the new research group funding system; incorporating the most innovative European trends in programme design and managing the impact of demographic changes; organisational restructuring of the Faculty’s technical, administrative, and service staff (PTGAS); and promoting the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence tools in the university context.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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