Marta, you have been able to participate in this year’s edition of IE Business School’s Junior Advisory Board (JAB). Tell us what the Board does and how you got in.

I got in thanks to the “My Europe” Initiative. When I wrote the project about how I wanted my Europe to be in 30 years’ time, IE University read it, since one of the jury members was Santiago, the director, and asked me if I wanted to join this year’s Junior Advisory Board in Segovia. What it basically does is join a number of selected students from all around the globe and make them think about what the major issues concerning education are and making them write a final project which they later have to present in front of the University staff.

Do you feel that IE University valued the contributions made by JAB during the Junior Advisory Board Meeting?

I think they did. They were really involved in everything we did and at the final presentation there were many questions which we were happy to respond to. Not only about how we saw education in global terms, but also how we saw IE univeristy in particular.

Could you imagine coming back to IE University as a student one day?

I don’t know yet but really hope I can. I found it to be an amazing university full of well-prepared Spanish and foreign students. Its campuses were incredible; especially the one in Segovia. What I found really interesting was their teaching method though, which was quite unusual, in a positive way.