Enrique Dans is a Senior Fellow with the Tech Policy Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Enrique Dans is one of the most prominent Spanish academics in the fields of technology adoption, entrepreneurship, and innovation. He graduated with a Baccalaureate in Science at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in 1989 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at IE Business School (1989-90), before joining IE Business School as an Assistant Professor in IS/IT in September 1990. In 1996, Enrique got a grant to pursue doctoral studies at the John  E. Anderson Business School at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA): he graduated with a Ph.D. in Management in 2000, with a dissertation focused on the transition of newspapers from the paper to the screen and the measurable effects of IT adoption in small and medium enterprises.

Whilst at UCLA, Enrique worked as an International Management Fellowship (IMF) Program Instructor. Once returned to Spain in 2000, Enrique rejoined IE Business School as a Full Professor and IS/IT Area Chair, and started a line of collaboration with Spanish newspapers and magazines on technology adoption, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the effect of technology at the consumer, corporate and societal level of analysis. Enrique keeps a permanent presence in the Spanish media panorama, with a weekly column in the most prominent economic newspaper (Expansión) since 2001, and many articles and collaborations in other newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV. He also advises online startups and consolidated companies as a consultant or a board member. The newspaper El Mundo has included him in the «Top 25 most influential people in Spain» in the Internet and Technology category every single year since 2006. Besides that, he is one of the highest-ranked professors at IE Business School according to his student evaluations. He teaches several courses in the IS/IT and Entrepreneurship areas: «Innovation», «Technology immersion», «Digital journalism», «CRM», «Social web» or «Managing the tech startup» among others, with student evaluations consistently above 4 on a scale from 1 to 5. Since September 2016, he is also IE’s Senior Advisor in Innovation and Digital Transformation. He is also a visiting professor at Spain’s Diplomatic School and the University of Oxford, and he is part of the Unesco Netexplo Advisory Board.

In February 2003, Enrique started his page, enriquedans.com, and he has been publishing regularly every single day since then, turning it into the most influential technology page in Spanish. In 2010, he published his book, «Todo va a cambiar» («Everything is going to change») with a foreword from Vint Cerf, and became a best-seller in the management category in Spanish. He also published an online social edition of the book at todovaacambiar.com sponsored by two large companies, Banesto, and El Corte Inglés, with the full text supplemented with links, pictures, videos, and comments. In October 2019, Enrique released his new book, entitled «Viviendo en el Futuro « («Living in the Future»), and in April 2023, «Todo vuelve a Cambiar» («Everything Changes Again»).

Besides his daily article on his page in both Spanish and English, Enrique wrote regularly at Forbes (US Edition) between 2014 and 2021 and participates regularly in newspapers and magazines talking about technology and innovation. He also maintains a strong presence on social networks such as Twitter (the business school professor with the highest number of followers in the world), Facebook, etc. In September 2015, he was shortlisted for the prestigious Thinkers 50 award in the category of «Digital thinking». In September 2016 he was awarded the Communication and Dissemination Prize from the prestigious Spanish Digital Economy Association (Adigital). He has also been included in the Forbes España Best Influencers List in the Business Category in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.