Paloma Fernandez Perez is a Professor in the Department of Economic and Business History at the University of Barcelona. She received one of the first ICREA Academia awards from the Catalan government in 2008 and is in the editorial council of the journals Business History and Investigaciones de Historia Economica. She founded and coordinates the Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms. Her last book was La ultima globalizacion y el renacer de los grandes negocios familiares en el mundo (2012).