Academic & Professional Service

Editorial roles, peer review, and service to the research system — distinct from the applied consulting work on the Consulting page.

Committees & boards

Doctoral Program Coordinator, Universitat de les Illes Balears — since 22 Sept 2014 (current). Coordinates UIB's side of the joint doctoral program with UAB and UPNA (the DEMO program) — the reason for his recurring discussant/chair role at the annual DEMO Workshops in Barcelona.
Program/Organizing Committee, Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment (WCGI) — standing member alongside Marc Goergen (IE University), Niels Hermes (University of Groningen), Miguel A. García Cestona (UAB), and Marc Steffen Rapp (Philipps-Universität Marburg). WCGI is a peer workshop series running since 1998, rotating annually across European universities (Copenhagen 2022, Marburg 2023, Aberdeen 2024, Vaasa 2025, Vilnius 2026).
Jury member, Premio de Investigación y Estudio Antonio Dionis Soler — research award, Instituto de Analistas Financieros / Fundación de Estudios Financieros. Near-continuous service since 2008 (2008–2010, 2015–2025). Award page
Recurring external evaluator, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), 2021–2026 — faculty search committees (including a 2026 Chair search), postdoctoral-program and "recualificación" (promotion) evaluation, doctoral thesis panels, and the Consejo Social excellence awards committee.

Review Board, Family Business Review — 2014–2017, with further reviewing activity in 2022–2023
Associate Editor, Revista de Economía Financiera (2002–2006); Editor, Special Issue on Corporate Governance (2008)
Associate Editor, CEDE (Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa), journal of the Spanish Academy of Management (2006–2010)
Member, Board of Directors (Junta Directiva), ACEDE — Asociación Científica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa (2008–2010)

Corporate Governance: An International Review (2002–2010, ongoing through 2024–2025)
Journal of Management and Governance (1998–2010)
Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa, for ACEDE (2003–2010)
European Accounting Review (2004–2010)
Revista Economía Aplicada (2001–2009)
Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad (2001–2009, renewed for a 2021 special issue)
Investigaciones Económicas (1997–2008)
Revista Española de Economía (1995–2006)
Journal of World Business, Journal of Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Finance, Management Research, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Empirical Finance, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics (1995–1999)
More recent/ongoing: Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science (2025 batch); Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal (2026); Strategic Management Journal; International Journal of Hospitality Management

AQUCat (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya) — accreditation evaluator across three categories: Lector (Lecturer, ~64 candidate evaluations over 10 rounds, 2018–2023), Agregat (Associate Professor, 3 rounds, 2023–2026), and Catedràtic (Full Professor, 2023 and 2025); also research-output ("sexenis") assessor
AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) — evaluator for national R&D grant proposals (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 calls, ~20 proposals per round) and Ramón y Cajal / Juan de la Cierva fellowship applications (2025, 17 candidates)
Serra Húnter Programme (Generalitat de Catalunya) — faculty search evaluator, UAB
External tenure-case evaluator — IE Business School (multiple cases) and Nova School of Business & Economics, Lisbon
External faculty-candidate evaluator — CUNEF (Madrid) and Universidad de Zaragoza

Distinct from the theses he has directed as supervisor — see the Teaching page for those.

External committee member/examiner for PhD theses at: Universidad Pública de Navarra, Universitat de València, IE University, ESADE, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (a multi-thesis panel, 2023)

UIB Department of Business Economics job-market committee — recurring role screening international job-market candidates, year by year:
- 2017–18 — full international search across Business Economics, Finance, and Marketing tracks, two screening rounds
- 2018 — largest year on record: over 100 candidates screened
- 2018–19 — second round, several dozen further candidates
- 2019 — two-round search including a dedicated Accounting track
- 2020 — shortlist/interview stage with a handful of finalists
- 2021 — interview-stage participation
- 2022 — search continued into January 2023
- 2026 — new search round opened
Internal UIB faculty tribunals — member of multiple selection/promotion committees for Cátedra, Titular de Universidad, and other academic positions, including a formal Department of Business Economics tenure-track search (2020–2021)

Competitive research-grant evaluator, ANEP / AEI (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva, renamed Agencia Estatal de Investigación in 2015) — continuously since 2004: as ANEP 2004–2010, as AEI in 2017–2018 and 2021–2022 (in-person panels)
Five positive CNEAI evaluations (Spanish research-output evaluation agency) — six-year "sexenio" research periods, most recently 2023
Member, Comisión de Investigación (Research Committee), Universitat de les Illes Balears (2004)
Member-coordinator, Spanish team, European Corporate Governance Network, with CEPR, sponsored by the EU Commission's DG Industry (1997–2000)
Selection-committee member, Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica (CICYT), Economic Sciences area (2002–2003)
Organizer, XIX Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment, Universitat de les Illes Balears (2005); President, Organizing Committee, XII Congreso ACEDE, Palma de Mallorca (2002)

Six theses directed — see the Teaching page for the full list.