Ángel Cabrera is president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a leading public research university in Atlanta. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2019, he was president of George Mason University, the largest and fastest-growing public university in Virginia. He was also President of Thunderbird School of Global Management (now part of Arizona State University) and Dean of IE Business School in Madrid.

Cabrera graduated in Telecommunications Engineering (BS/MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and obtained his MS and PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Georgia Tech, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar.

Cabrera serves on the boards of TIAA, the National Geographic Society, Harvard College Visiting Committee, the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Bankinter Foundation of Innovation in Madrid. He has served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and three public company boards.

Cabrera's research in organizational behavior has been cited thousands of times. At Thunderbird, he established the world's first Business Oath of Honor at a business school and, in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact, led the creation of the Principles for Responsible Management Education, currently endorsed by hundreds of business schools around the world.

He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Henry Crown Fellow by Aspen Institute, and a Great Immigrant by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has received honorary degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Miami Dade College.