Department: Economía Financiera I

Centre: Facultad de Economía y Empresa

Campus: Bizkaia

Field of knowledge: Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas

Area: Financial Economics and Accounting

Research group: GESEF Gobernanza, Emprendimiento y Sostenibilidad en la Empresa Familiar

Email: unai.arzubiaga@ehu.eus

Doctor by the Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea with the thesis Orientazio ekintzailetik familia enpresen emaitzara estrategiari buruzko erabaki hartzearen analisia administrazio kontseilu eta zuzendaritza mailetan 2016. Supervised by Dr. Txomin Iturralde Jainaga, Dr. Amaia Maseda García.

* Accredited as University Professor (2024) by ANECA and as Full Professor (2024) by Unibasq. * Vice-Dean of Teaching Practices, Quality and Innovation (since 2023) at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the UPV/EHU (Elcano section). * Among the 50 leading authors worldwide in family business research in the decade 2012-2022 (Siaba & Rivera, 2024). * Associate Editor of the journal Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (BEER) (IF: 3.6; Q1 in JCR Ethics 6/77) since 2022. * Member of Editorial Boards: Family Business Review (IF: 9.9; Q1 in JCR Business 11/304), Journal of Family Business Strategy (IF: 9.5 Q1 in JCR Management 14/304), Entrepreneurship Research Journal (IF: 2.0 Q3 in JCR Business 186/304) and European Journal of Family Business (IF Scopus: 2.7 Q3 in Business and Internatonal Management). * Guest editor (Q1 JCR) in Journal of Knowledge Management (2020-2022), Journal of Family Business Strategy (2021-2024) and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research (2025-2027). * Co-chairperson 3 years of the most important international family business conference (IFERA 2020, 2021 and 2022). * Member of the organising team of the 13th EIASM Workshop on Family Firm Management Research 2017 (Bilbao). * Member of the Research and Publications Team of IFERA (International Family Enterprise Research Academy - the leading international association for family business research) (2018-2024). * Outstading Reviewer Award of the Family Business Review (Family Firm Institute) in 2022. * Member of the thesis committee of more than 10 international theses (Belgium, France, Italy, Colombia...). * Supervision of 1 doctoral thesis with international mention (2022) and 4 more (2 international and 1 industrial thesis) are in development. * Researcher in different projects and contracts (national plan, competitive projects with companies and public institutions in the Basque Country and UPV/EHU). * Permanent member of the Family Business Centre of the UPV/EHU (structure accredited by the Basque Government within the Basque R+D+I Network). * Collaborator of the Instituto de Empresa Familiar (IEF) in a study entitled ‘La empresa Familiar en España’ (2015). * Research stays: Lancaster University (2014) and Free Universiy of Bozen-Bolzano (2019 and 2022) (mentor Alfredo De Massis, one of the 25 star professors in family business worldwide according to Family Capital (2015)). * Evaluator of international research projects: National Science Agencies of Austria (Austrian Science Fund (FWF)) (2021) and Czech Republic (Czek Science Foundation (GACR)) (2022 and 2023). * Member of the Postgraduate Commission of the UPV/EHU (2014-2016).