Moderators’ biographies

Gaspar Atienza Becerril, Partner Lawyer, J&A Garrigues, S.L.P., Corporate and Financial Law Department.  Gaspar is Partner lawyer at the corporate and financial law department of J&A Garrigues, S.L.P. He joined J&A Garrigues in 2000 and has worked in its headquarters in Madrid since then, with the exception of a period in 2002-2003 when he joined Hunton & Williams in Washington D.C., USA, a period in New York (2007-2008) and a period in São Paulo (2010-2011). He works in the Corporate and banking law department, with special focus on banking, structured Financing, mergers and acquisitions, renewable energies, in national and International transactions. Gaspar is registered as lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association, as well as in the São Paulo Bar Association as a consultant on foreign law.  He holds a Law Degree, E-1, Universidad Pontificia de Madrid, ICADE, a MA on International Affairs, Columbia University, New York, and a PhD on International public law and International relations, Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and Universidad Autónoma. In 2007-2008, he was a visiting Doctoral Researcher in the Hauser Global Law Program at New York University. Gaspar is an Associate professor at IE University, in the Master of International Relations, since 2008. He offers conferences and other courses at IE University and other faculties. He has several publications in different newspapers (ABC, El Mundo) as well as magazines (Política Exterior, Nueva Revista, etc.).  He is father to three children, loves literature, politics, and ping-pong, and speaks Spanish, English and French.  

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (Madrid, 1978) is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University Complutense of Madrid. As a classicist and historian of religion, he deals mainly with ancient Greek culture and its Christian reception. He has worked as researcher in the Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte and in the universities of Harvard, Oxford, Zürich and Bologna, and has lectured as invited professor in various academic institutions in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is the author, among other works, of the book Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) and of the commented edition of the 16th cent. Latin version of Aristotle’s Politics by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda that was used to justify the Spanish conquest of America (2013). Besides his academic activity, Miguel has collaborated as seminar moderator with Aspen Institute Spain, and has worked as technical advisor for the Madrid Regional Government in the fields of Higher Education and Scientific Research.