Aspen España Fellows

Our Fellows share their experiences in Aspen.

What is Aspen Institute España for you?

Aspen Institute España selects each year from its network of Alumni those who have excelled during their participation at the seminars to become candidates for the Aspen España Fellows Program.

The Aspen Institute Alumni Network is an engaged community of people actively participating in our educational and policy studies events, providing important input for our activities, and helping sustain our mission to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.

The creation of the Aspen Institute España Fellows Program joins the network of committed Aspen alumni with the mission of Aspen in Spain and offers its members the opportunity to join the international Network of Aspen. Aspen Fellows may be trained to become moderators of Aspen seminars and have access to other programs and seminars of The Aspen Institute. Thus, their role as representatives and ambassadors of Aspen España is encouraged.

José Luis Escario

Research Associate, Area of Studies and Analysis of Fundación Carolina

What I consider the most remarkable issue about Aspen España is how, from the reading and reflection of the selected readings, one is involved in dialogues about existential and social concerns from a different perspective. Aspen España has allowed me to assertively share my vision (even intimate) on these matters, independent of my professional activity. At the same time, all these years in Aspen España have taught me to communicate to others with respect: in the first place, by listening quietly (internally and externally) and aiming at understanding their position, even if I do not share it. By leaving labels and judgments aside, progressively I have been able to establish a more complete relationship with others and enrich myself with their contributions.

Beatriz Escriña

Global Head of External Communications at Prosegur

Three Wise Men Day. The room full of balloons, packages and a magic that would not be easy to describe with words. You're happy just being there. You take a box. You move it, you shake it. You don't really know what it is, but it makes you smile. By your side someone with eyes wide open feeling the same as you. You both listen. And thousands of questions go through your heads. Some with an answer and others… with more questions.

This is Aspen Institute España to me: a gift.

Guillermina Ester

Partner of Pérez-Llorca

The three ideas that come to my mind when I think of Aspen España are: the act of listening, taking perspective and diversity. To me, Aspen España is a place to enhance the ability to listen and of understanding what the other is thinking. In Aspen España you put yourself in someone’s shoes. The debates generated at Aspen España help me in the process of reflection and grounding the information, in the idea that there is nothing without a solution. That is why I believe that Aspen España is also a place to focus on ideas from different angles. Finally, Aspen España is diversity, diversity of approach, perspective and talent. I enjoy very much and I feel very comfortable in this atmosphere of plurality that is created in the discussions at Aspen España.

Pablo Esteves

Managing Partner, Emzingo

To me, Aspen España is a space, an experience, and a forum. It is a space for reflection, to explore different points of view, to develop, test, and question ideas -both new and old. It is an experience that invites dialogue, to listen to others and to oneself. In an Aspen experience one learns and teaches, laughs and cries, debates, listens and shares in a safe and welcoming space. And it is a forum where the intellect grows, is nurtured and inspired, and, without a doubt, is exercised and renewed.

Lucía Gandarillas

Manager of Public Sector Consulting at Accenture

Aspen has made me aware of the talent that exists in our society and reminded me of the importance of remaining humble, willing to listen openly to others and acknowledge my biases.
It has been a gift to discover books that I would not otherwise know exist, thanks to the varied texts in the seminars, and to meet interesting people from different disciplines to reflect and learn from.
I feel privileged to participate and I trust that this experience is strengthening my tolerance and values professionally and personally, to live life in a more equitable and committed way with people and the planet.

Fernando García González-Valerio

Retired Army Lieutenat General. Currently workigg as counselor to em&e Group.

Having participated in two Aspen Institute seminars has been a privilege: on the one hand, because of Aspen’s professionalism, focus, and vision—magnificently led and with carefully selected participants—and, on the other hand, because it has been an opportunity both to contribute by offering a different point of view and to listen to diverse opinions on a range of topics of the highest interest. It is an exceptional forum for understanding and discussing different issues and perspectives, as well as for helping to identify solutions and pathways that bring together the broadest possible segments of society.

Javier García Toni

Director of Cabinet of the Vice-Secretariat of Culture and Spokesperson of the Partido Popular

Aspen has always been a halfway point between respite and balm. Not only for the readings, the sessions, the reflection or the shared values; but for the opportunity to break away from a frenetic, though always fun, day-to-day life to find the things that matter. Bonds, learning and the ability to understand the deeper meaning of many of the things we did flourished. If there were springs, which there were, they were always better in any of the Aspen activities. I understood this from my first visit, a few years ago, to this very interesting place -Aspen Spain- from which I hope to continue learning every day.

Justin Gest

Professor of Policy and Government at the George Mason University

Román Gil Alburquerque

Partner, Sagardoy Abogados, Professor, University of Navarre & IE Law School

Aspen España for me is the possibility of dialogue, dialogue itself and the fruit of dialogue. It is the conversation with friends, with history and with myself. It is humanism and joy of life. It is reflection and enthusiasm, texts and humor, benevolence and passion. It is a duty the possibility of being as it must be and a real being.

Alfonso Goizueta

Novelist and Scholar. King’s College London

Aspen never fails when it comes to creating spaces for dialogue in which to debate the issues that affect us as a society and as individuals. At a frenetic historical moment in which only what is immediately useful seems to matter, an Aspen seminar offers the necessary pause to reflect and to reason—in short, to continue being human.

Olga Grau

Director of Stakeholder Communications, Banco Santander

For me, Aspen means inspiration, openness to the world, dialogue, transversality, global vision and diversity. The ability to build and train critical thinking is one of the great skills of the 21st century — and Aspen is the ideal forum to cultivate it.

Joaquín Güell Ampuero

Senior Advisor of Investindustrial and President of the Joan Boscà Foundation

Aspen Institute España is the place where I don't always change my mind, but where I almost always change the subject and the arguments: sometimes, because my interlocutors are from another generation, discipline, orientation or nationality; sometimes, because the focus and method of the debates force me to revise concepts and prejudices. A place of freedom and trust, without hierarchies, where intellectual complicity is fostered - undoubtedly even more important than consensus.

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