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Domènec Melé is Emeritus Professor and former Chair of Business Ethics at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. He earned a doctorate in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (1975), and another PhD degree in Theology from the University of Navarra (1983). Over the last 38 years, has taught and researched, publishing about 70 articles in referred journals and book sections on economic and business ethics, corporate social responsibility, humanistic management, Christian perspectives on business, and philosophy of management. Professor Melé has chaired the biennial International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society led by IESE from 1991 to 2014 (18 editions). Now, he is associate editor of the Humanistic Management Journal and a member of several editorial boards. Previously he has served as section editor of the Journal of Business Ethics for ten years. He is author of Management Ethics (Palgrave, 2012), and Business Ethics in Action: Managing Human Excellence in Organizations, 2nd ed. (Red Globe Press, 2019). He also co-authored Human Foundations of Management. Understanding the 'homo humanus' (Palgrave, 2014). He has also co-edited five special issue of international Journals and three books: Human Development in Business. Values and Humanistic Management in the in the Encyclical «Caritas in Veritate» (Palgrave, 2012), Humanism in Economics and Business. Perspectives of the Catholic Social Tradition (Springer, 2015) and A Catholic Spirituality for Business. The Logic of Gift (The Catholic University of America Press, 2019).