Santiago Fernández Valbuena was born in Madrid the same year that Spain entered the IMF and the Americans launched a satellite into space. Since then, in addition to turning years old, he has fulfilled many projects, usually in the opposite direction to the most usual.
He studied in a public institute at a time when teachers freed minds instead of protecting themselves from them, which contributed to forging a nonconformist spirit with which he feels very satisfied. He read Spanish poets, whom he has not forgotten, became an economist because he wanted to change the world, not only understand it, and he left for the United States, where he became a Doctor (PhD) in Economics, to learn how to use tools of the sculptors of the numbers.