Luisa Alemany

Luisa Alemany is an Associate Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School. She is also a Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford University. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, impact investing, deeptech financing and university spin-offs. Her work has been published in leading journals, including Harvard Business Review, and she co-authored the award-winning textbook "Entrepreneurial Finance: The Art and Science of Growing Ventures" (Cambridge University Press, 2026), now in its second edition and also translated into Chinese. In 2025, she co-authored “Financiando el Futuro”, a book that covers the recent evolution of entrepreneurial finance in Latin America.

Luisa teaches at the Master of Science, MBA, and executive education levels on the topics of entrepreneurial finance, bringing technology innovation to market and entrepreneurial mindset. She has received recognition for her teaching excellence, the most recent awarded by the LBS EMBA 2025 graduating class, and for several of her case studies including the Barcelona-based university spin-off "Scytl" and Ugandan social enterprise "Banapads".

She serves on the board of the Newton Venture Programme—a pioneering collaboration between London Business School and top-quartile venture capital fund LocalGlobe—dedicated to making the venture ecosystem open to all. She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme, supporting social enterprises and advancing female entrepreneurship in developing economies, and sits on the advisory board of Aldea Ventures, a Barcelona-based fund of funds backing the next generation of early-stage European VC managers. Luisa has played a key role in Europe’s angel investing community. She has been involved with EBAN since its early years and served on its board (2012–2014). Currently, she is part of EBAN’s the Academic and the Gender Committees.

Before joining academia at ESADE Business School, she worked at Procter & Gamble, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, venture capital fund Europ@Web and The Carlyle Group. She previously served as Director of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute and was a Visiting Professor at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a PhD in Economics and Business from Universidad Complutense, Madrid.