Professor
Fernando Garibay

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
The Garibay Institute

Fernando Garibay is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer at The Garibay Institute for Soft Power and Public Diplomacy.

Prof. Garibay is recognized as an academic polymath; record producer, songwriter, entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and scholar. 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.

Garibay's portfolio of accomplishments include multiple GRAMMY® and BMI Award-winning albums, contributing to several Billboard global number-one pop records, and global dance hits. Notably, he was the producer of Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster, which won the "Best Pop Vocal Album" at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY® Awards in 2010. Garibay served as an executive, artist, and producer at Interscope Records, where he founded Paradise/Interscope.

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.

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​Through his extensive multidisciplinary engagement, Garibay not only promotes scholarly and practical advancements in soft power and public diplomacy but also provides strategic counsel to governmental leaders, royal families, and global decision-makers, further contributing actively to multiple academic fields, including:

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• Creativity (Organic/Human and Synthetic/AI)

• Diplomacy

• Soft Power

• Public Policy

• Polemology

• Leadership Theory

• Innovation Theory

• Philosophy (Epistemology)

• Artificial Intelligence

• Distributed Ledgers

• General Technology

• Musicology

• Film Studies

• Fashion Studies

• Fine Arts

• Performance Science

• Sports and Biotechnology

• Behavioral-Economics 

• Neuroeconomics

• Neuroscience

• Psychology

• Cultural Studies

• Game Studies

• Theology and Religious Studies