Aspen Institute España will host a Seminar about “Europe and Leadership of the Free World”, a custom seminario for Zurich, member of the Aspen Institute España board of trustees. It will be moderated by José M. de Areilza Carvajal, Secretary General of Aspen Institute España, and Íñigo Alfonso, Aspen España Fellow. The seminar will take place from November 27 to 28 at the Teatro Real de Madrid and will be comprised of 25 to 30 participants from Zurich.
José M. de Areilza
José M. de Areilza is Secretary General of the Fundación Aspen Institute España and Professor at ESADE Business School and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair-ESADE. He has been Visiting Professor at INSEAD Business School (2018-2021) and at the London Business School (2022-2026). He has published extensively about European integration and Geopolitics. He writes a weekly column about international affairs for the ABC newspaper. He is Vice-president of the Spain-USA Council Foundation, Trustee of the Spanish Navy Museum, Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ecfr.eu) and Academy Faculty in Chatham House, London. José M. de Areilza received an LL.B. degree with Special Graduation Prize from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and holds a Master’s degree (LL.M.) and Doctorate degree (S.J.D.) from Harvard University and an M.A. in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law. In 1991 he was admitted to the New York Bar.
Íñigo Alfonso
Íñigo Alfonso Imízcoz is a journalist. He currently lives in Brussels, where he works as a communications consultant for, among others, the European Investment Bank (EIB). In the EU capital, he writes about European affairs for Ethicmagazine and is the voice of the Aspen Institute España podcast Los Europeos. From 2018 to 2024, he directed and hosted the RNE program Las Mañanas. At the same station, he also directed and hosted the nightly news program 24 Horas (2010–2012), was Deputy Director of the Telediario Primera Edición (2013) on TVE, and served as RNE’s parliamentary correspondent in Congress and the Senate (2013–2018). He holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Navarra, where he graduated with the End-of-Degree Award (1997–2001), and a Master’s in International Relations from the Faculty of Journalism at the Complutense University of Madrid (2002–2004). He belongs to the 7th Cohort of the Climate Journalism program of the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford, and for more than ten years was responsible for the interview series Memorias de la Fundación at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. He has received the II Parliamentary Reporter of the Year Award (2015), granted by the Association of Parliamentary Journalists, the Teobaldo Award from the Association of Journalists of Navarra, and in 2020 he was awarded the XXVI Salvador de Madariaga Award for Radio Journalism by the Association of European Journalists. He is also an Aspen España Fellow.
