José Viñals Íñiguez

Spanish chief executive officer and financier

José Viñals Íñiguez belongs to the commercial record as a figure whose ventures outlasted the conditions that produced them.

The record lists José Viñals Íñiguez as Spanish chief executive officer and financier.

José Viñals Íñiguez was born at Madrid in 1954. His recorded nationality is Spain. He was educated at University of Valencia and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as chief executive officer, financier and economist.

His recorded affiliations include Bank of Spain, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.

Commercial success is easy to measure and hard to interpret; timing and market do much of the work.

Recognition followed: King James I Prize for Economics (2001).

That the business was built from Spain shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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