Marc Grau

Experts Meeting: Nurturing Healthy Relationships at Home and Work  and  Home and Engaged Fatherhood                                                                                                                                                     Working Paper | Understanding Family Resilience: Facilitating Factors from a Systematic Review 
Research Partner IESE-ICWF-HRF
HRF Publication: Happiness and Domestic Life
Conference: Happy Homes, Happy Society?
Working Paper | Positive parenting in Covid-19 times

Marc Grau-Grau is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Family Studies (IESF) and Associate Professor of Social and Family Policies at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), where he served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Education Sciences (2022–2025). He was a Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School (2016–2022). He has taught at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and has held visiting positions at the College of Business and Law in Israel (2019), the University of Bologna in Italy (2022, 2025), and Universidad Austral in Argentina (2023). His research focuses on four main areas: (1) work–family balance and fatherhood, (2) childhood and childcare, (3) family policies, and (4) education and family relationships. He is co-editor of four books: The Work-Family Balance in Light of Globalization and Technology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), The New Ideal Worker (Springer, 2019), Engaged Fatherhood (Springer, 2022), and Human Flourishing (Springer, 2023). His work has appeared in journals such as Organization, Gender, Work & Organization, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Business Research, Children & Society, and Revista Española de Sociología, among others. Marc holds a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh, a Master’s in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from ESADE Business School.