President Member of the Boards of Directors and Trustees

Giancarlo Ibárgüen S.

President Member of the Boards of Directors and Trustees

Universidad Francisco Marroquín

Giancarlo Ibárgüen S. has been president of Universidad Francisco Marroquín (UFM) since 2003. He is a trustee of the university and has been member of its board of directors since 1992, serving as secretary general (provost) from 1995 to 2003. An entrepreneur and educator, he also teaches economics and is the director of the HenryHazlittCenter at UFM.
His other academic posts include: member of the board of directors of Centro de Estudios Económico Sociales (CEES) since 1990; member of the board of advisors for the student organization AIESEC since 2005; member of the Philadelphia Society and the advisory board of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry; member of the Mont Pelerin Society and chairman of its 2006 Organizing Committee for its General Meeting in Guatemala; member of Liberty Fund’s board of directors since 2007;vice president of the Association of private Enterprise Education (APEE)2006-2007 and president 2007-2008.

Ibárgüen serves as financial advisor to various industrial, commercial, and software companies. He is a member of the board of directors of Samboro (ceramic tile manufacturer), Glifos (software developer for library, media, and business content management), and Belluno (restaurant franchisor).

Heis a founding collaborator of the philosophical magazine Intuición. He was president-founder of the Asociación de Amigos of the Ludwig von Mises Library in 1991 and founding president of the grass-roots Asociación por el Poder Local (APOLO) that same year. From 1992 to 1994, he was member of the board of the Asociación de Gerentes de Guatemala and on the editorial board of Gerencia magazine.

Hisarticles on economics and telecommunications have been published byLibertas (Argentina), Telecommunications Policy (Great Britain), the website of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) eLibrary. He is a contributing author to the book ¡La Privatización: una oportunidad! (CEES, 1992); occasional contributorto the monthly pamphlet Tópicos de Actualidadpublished by CEES; and occasional columnist for MONEDA. His editorials have been published in Siglo XXI, The Wall Street Journal,andin other international publications. He is author of the core memorandum used to develop Title IV of Guatemala’s 1996 Telecommunications Law concerning management of the radio spectrum. In 2000, he translated and published the book Los ensayos de Warren Buffett: Lecciones para inversionistas y gerentesby Lawerence A. Cunningham. He has organized colloquiums in Guatemala for Liberty Fund (Indianapolis, Indiana)on technology, patents, private property, Don Quixote, and Robert Nozick.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from TexasA&MUniversity. He lives in Guatemala City with his wife and three children.