Prof. Fernando Garibay

Prof. Fernando Garibay

Professor of Practice
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, The Garibay Institute for Soft Power and Public Diplomacy

Prof. Fernando Garibay is internationally recognized as a distinguished hyper-multispecialist academic, a GRAMMY® and BMI award-winning record producer, songwriter, entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker. Renowned for his extensive contributions to the music industry and academia, he has solidified his reputation as an international influential figure in contemporary culture and thought leadership.

As the executive producer of Lady Gaga’s critically acclaimed album Born This Way and the musical director of her Born This Way Ball, Garibay has played a pivotal role in shaping modern pop music. His production and songwriting credits encompass a multitude of prominent artists, including U2, Sia, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Shakira, Bruno Mars, Kylie Minogue, Enrique Iglesias, Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, The Pussycat Dolls, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Ellie Goulding, JJ Lin, Giorgio Moroder, Will.I.Am, Shaggy, Sting, Wiz Khalifa, and Lizzo. In 2014, he formed the pop duo collaboration Kylie and Garibay with Australian singer Kylie Minogue. His contributions have served as a catalyst for the development of several musical genres and contemporary movements, including Latin Pop and Electronic Dance Music.

An accomplished academic and thought leader, Garibay holds visiting lectureships at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the California Western School of Law. He co-developed the inaugural course on redefining human and synthetic creativity in artificial intelligence at the Stanford University School of Engineering and maintains dual professorial appointments at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where he concurrently holds two doctoral/Ph.D. candidacies and a Master's in Global Management. Prof. Garibay delivers lectures to the world's foremost assemblies in intelligence analysis, military science, defense strategy, and cognitive cybernetically integrated systems -directly advising senior command and principal strategists operating at the nexus of global security, adversarial technological systems, and geostrategic risk.

His expertise has been prominently displayed through keynote addresses at distinguished academic forums, such as the Royal Society, and before the world's most preeminent international organizations and policy bodies, including the United Nations, the Young Presidents Organization, and the World Economic Forum, thereby enriching and shaping global discourse on innovation, creativity, artificial intelligence, and disruptive technologies. As Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Garibay Institute, he advances research and practice on soft power and public diplomacy across multiple academic disciplines, in parallel advising heads of government, royal families, and global leaders in both the public and private sectors.