Paloma Fernández Pérez (Barcelona, 1964). She finished her degree in Geography and History at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1987. She obtained in the 1990s three grants –“la Caixa/Indiana University”, “Fulbright/MEC”, and “Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Year Fellowship- which helped her become an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States. She worked as a Teaching Assistant and as a Graduate Student Instructor in Berkeley, before becoming an Assistant professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona in 1993/1994. After three public competitive examinations held in a period of six years, between 1994-2001, she became Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and Economic Institutions at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitat de Barcelona, where she is now teaching international business history, family businesses, and the relationship of families with innovation and globalization.