Dr. Ricardo Gimeno is Deputy Director of the Department of Market Analysis and Intelligence at Banco de España and Honorary Professor at Universidad CEU San Pablo. He completed his PhD in Economics and Business Administration at ICADE, Universidad Pontificia Comillas. He has lectured at ICADE, CEMFI, CEU, CUNEF and NYU Madrid. He has also visited the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Yale University and Florida Atlantic University. His research has received several awards, including the Antonio Dionis Soler Award for the Best Paper on Finance, the Best Paper Award from Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Best Paper Awards in Fixed Income Markets at the Finance Forum. He has a long-standing research agenda on corporate governance, management, board gender diversity, executive networks, gender-biased selection, and discrimination in corporate elites. He has published in journals including European Economic Review, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance, British Journal of Management, European Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, PLOS ONE, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Physica A.