MENU
Group 2 Created with Sketch Beta.

Maite Arango

Ashoka Next Now Co-LeaderAshoka: Everyone a Changemaker

Biography

Maite Arango was born in Mexico in 1958 and holds dual citizenship in Spain and Mexico.
She is the mother of one son, Juan, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Scripps College. She is a 2018 fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University.
Until 2018, she served as a shareholder and vice chair of the Board of Directors at Grupo Vips (now Alsea). She sits onthe Board of Trustees at Acciona.com
From 2016 to 2021, she held the position of president at Ashoka Spain and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2013. At a global level, she is a full partner of Ashoka.org and has co-led the Next Now initiative since its launch in 2019. She is also the founder, vice president, and a member of the Executive Committee of Fundación SERES.
Since 2003, she has been a member of the ESADE Professional Council.She is a member of the board of
trustees of the Amigos del Museo del Prado Foundation, as well as of the Princess of Asturias
Foundation