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Gonzalo Arana

  • Visiting Fellow

Gonzalo joined Harvard’s Growth Lab as a Visiting Fellow in 2024. Before that, he completed the mid-career Master in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining Harvard, Gonzalo was an associate partner at Oliver Wyman, where he led the Public Sector department in Spain and Portugal. Over the past ten years, he has advised companies and institutions in Greece, Italy, Germany, the UK, South Africa, Portugal, and Spain. In 2021, he joined the Spanish Chamber of Commerce to launch strategic projects for the private sector and was part of an expert group that included Spanish Public Administrations to develop strategies to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Since 2016, Gonzalo has been the founder and chair of Proyecto Capicua, a small NGO dedicated to assisting underprivileged children in the suburbs of Madrid, focusing on facilitating their access to education. Gonzalo holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School, an MSc in Economics from the University of Navarra-IESE, and a BA in Management. He is also an Aspen Institute Spain Fellow. His research interests at the Growth Lab include growth diagnostics, green growth, and innovation policy.  He complements this fellowship with his position leading the Public Sector practice at Oliver Wyman in Spain and Portugal.

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Arana Gonzales

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