Moderators and Speakers
Iñaki Ellakuria
Columnist, editor-in-chief and delegate of EL MUNDO in Catalonia
He is a columnist, editor-in-chief and delegate of EL MUNDO in Catalonia.
Lucía Gandarillas
Public affairs consultancy, Accenture
Is a public services consultant in Accenture, working to redesign the services provided by public administration in different areas: employment, social services, justice, education, or tourism. She believes in the potential of technology, data, and user center design to improve public policies and simplify citizen’s relationship with the administration. Previously she did consultancy for the financial regulatory sector. Analyzing the transformation of banking institutions into transparent, and collaborative ecosystems. Lucía studied business administration in UC3M, and now is studying a master’s in public management, administration, and taxation in the UNED. She has some complementary studies in social psychology, one of her great interests along behavioral sciences.
Mikko Hypponen
Chief Research Officer at WithSecure and Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure.
Carmen Pérez-Llorca
lawyer, Vice Dean at IE Law School,
She is a lawyer. She has practiced in Spain (Allen & Overy) and in the United States (Mayer Brown and Dewey Ballantine), specializing in banking and financial law. In addition to her career as a lawyer, she has served as a member of the Madrid Assembly and as Deputy Minister of Education in the Community of Madrid. In recent years, she has dedicated herself to teaching in the United States, where she was the Associate Dean for International Programs at the University of Miami School of Law. She is currently the Associate Dean at IE Law School.
Jordi Pérez Colomé
Journalist at El País, specialized in Technology and Society
Catherine Jestin
Vice President Digital at Airbus
Antonio Delgado
Adjunct Professor, Department of Law at Esade and President of the Círculo Ecuestre de Barcelona
Angela Zhang
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law
Angela Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Widely recognized as a leading authority on China’s tech regulation, Angela has written extensively on this topic. She is the author of "Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation" (Oxford, 2021), which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of 2021 by ProMarket. Angela's second book, "High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy," was released by Oxford University Press in March 2024. In fall 2024, Angela will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law.
Marteen Wetselaar
CEO of CEPSA
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José Luis Álvarez
Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Harvard University and Professor of Management Practice at INSEAD
He is Professor of Management Practice at INSEAD (France-Singapore). D. in Sociology of Organisations from Harvard University, where he has been a visiting professor, he specialises in the executive function, both in business and politics. His latest books are The Changing C-Suite, published by Oxford University Press, and the recent second edition of Los presidentes de Gobierno españoles: Las claves de su liderazgo y estilo de gobierno.
Amb. Douglas Lute
Former United States permanent representative to NATO
Amb. Douglas Lute is the former United States Ambassador to NATO. Appointed by President Obama, he assumed the Brussels-based post in 2013 and served until 2017. During this period, he was instrumental in designing and implementing the 28-nation Alliance responses to the most severe security challenges in Europe since the end of the Cold War. A career Army officer, in 2010 Lute retired from active duty as a lieutenant general after 35 years of service.
Anya Schiffrin
Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
Is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a senior lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently, she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her PHD on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (New Press, 2014) and African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa (Jakana 2017).