{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-14T03:19:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T03:19:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:26:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/vergara\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carles Vergara-Alert is Professor of Finance at IESE Business School and holder of the Banco Sabadell Chair in Business and Sustainability. During the 2026\u20132027 academic year, he is visiting the MIT Center for Real Estate. He was a Visiting Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>His research examines how major technological and environmental transformations reshape real assets, infrastructure, cities, and financial markets. 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