M. Julia Prats (Terrassa, Spain, 1964) is Full Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and holds the Bertrán Foundation Chair of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School (University of Navarra). She earned a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University (2004), an MBA from IESE Business School, University of Navarre (1992) and a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1989).

Her academic and research work focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation, and professional service firms. She has been a visiting professor at Wharton Business School (USA), IPADE (Mexico), INALDE (Colombia), and AESE (Portugal), among others.

She was a member of the council of the delegation of the Prelature of Opus Dei for Catalonia and Andorra between 2013 and 2017. From 2022 to 2024, she traveled to various circumscriptions of the Prelature to support the restructuring of those countries. She has been Central Secretary of Opus Dei since April 2025.