Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero
Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero (Salamanca, 17 September 1961) is a full professor of media management and the current president of the University of Navarra. Early life and education. Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero was born on 17 September 1961 in Salamanca to a family steeped in the livestock industry. His paternal grandfather was a doctor and his father a lawyer. On his mother’s side, both his great-grandfather and his great-great-grandfather served as President of the University of Salamanca. He has three siblings. He studied in a school run by the Marist Order. At 18 he moved  to Pamplona to take a degree in journalism at the University of Navarra. Teaching career. In 1991, he was appointed professor and associate dean of the School of Communication at the Universidad del País Vasco. Having returned to Pamplona, he was dean of the School of Communication at the University of Navarra from 1996 to 2005. In 2007, he was awarded the status of full professor. He served as president of the European Media Management Education Association from 1998 to 2004.