Jorge Vidal
Jorge Fernández Vidal is an Investment Director at the Liechtenstein Group, where he is responsible for the firm’s portfolio and investments in the agriculture & food sector. He also serves as an Advisor to the Chairman of Galp. He is a board member at Agritask, Green Universe Agriculture, N-Drip, PowerPollen, UMOA and Valle del Guadiana.
In the past, Jorge has served as a Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Company, led the business transformation efforts of Galp and Abanca, worked as an investment professional at the European Investment Bank and LeapFrog Investments, and as an entrepreneur in West Africa. He has worked across a wide range of sectors (e.g., agriculture, banking, energy, forestry, retail, etc) and geographies, in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
Jorge has published at top academic journals like Technological Forecasting and Social Change and the Journal of Business Research and has written several case studies and technical notes for IE Business School and the Center of African Business of the University of Johannesburg.
He holds a PhD in Business Economics from the University of Alicante (Spain) and an MBA with highest distinction (GPA: 4.0/4.0) from INSEAD (France and Singapore), where he is in the Dean’s List. He also holds an MSc in Strategic Studies from University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), a first-class honours Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) degree from University College of Cork (Ireland) and a first-class honours Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University (England).
He has been selected one of the Top 100 Spanish Economic leaders of tomorrow by Institute Choiseul in 2018 and 2019, as a QVIXOTE leader in 2019 and as a one of the 111 top talents in Spain by Nova Talent in 2021. He loves Africa and anything to do with African culture. He loves traveling and has been to 100+ countries (and counting), he is a voracious reader, and he is a collector and student of Contemporary African art.
