Mickey Edwards is Vice President and Program Director at The Aspen Institute. He was a member of Congress for 16 years, serving on the House Budget and Appropriations Committees and as a chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. After leaving Congress he taught for 11 years at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government before moving on first to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and then back to Washington, DC, as vice president of the Aspen Institute, where he directs a bipartisan fellowship for elected public officials. He is a frequent public speaker and has been a guest on many of the nation’s leading radio and television news and opinion broadcasts.

Doctor in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Master in Politics (London School of Economics), he has expanded his studies in Constitutional Law at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. Currently, a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having previously been Director of its Department of Public Law as well as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha. He has been a member of the Central Electoral Board. He is Secretary of the Journal of Political Studies and a founding member of the Basque collective "Miguel de Unamuno". He has been Secretary-General of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Constitutional Law. He is a member of the European Institute of Federalism at the Swiss University of Freiburg.

Mike co-founded the Bezos Family Foundation in 2000 with his wife Jackie, their three children, and their spouses, all of whom serve as directors. Through investments in research, public awareness, advocacy and programs, the foundation works to elevate the field of education and improve life outcomes for all children along the continuum from birth through high school. Never shy to fill an unmet need, the foundation has pioneered two in-house programs, the Bezos Scholars Program at the Aspen Institute, The Aspen Challenge and Students Rebuild, to offer young adults a dynamic way to connect, learn about, and take action on critical local and global issues.

He is currently the Corporate Director for Europe of CAF, Development Bank of Latin America. Guillermo has a degree in Law and Economics from the Javeriana University (1977), later he did postgraduate studies in International Relations (Georgetown University) and in Conflict Management (Harvard University).

Tremlett is a Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics and is author of three works of history and non-fiction that have been translated into half a dozen languages. He is Contributing Editor at The Guardian based in Spain, specializing in long form international reportage and political analysis. He previously worked for The Economist. He won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2018. He is the author of Ghosts of Spain, and biographies of Catherine of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.

He has broad and intense litigating practice at every jurisdictional level of Spain’s Labour and Employment Courts. Member of European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) since its founding and of the International Bar Association (IBA). He has been a part of the Board of the Foro Español de Relaciones Laborales (FORELAB) and currently sits on the board of the Asociación Nacional de Abogados Laboralistas (ASNALA), the two most relevant associations of labor and employment lawyers in Spain. Mr. Gil has served on the Board of the Madrid Bar Association, is a frequent speaker in legal conferences, and often authors publications regarding his field of expertise. He is a professor at the Universidad de Navarra/IESE, Centro Garrigues, and at the IE University.

He is a political scientist by vocation and training. He is editor of the blog Politikon and author of La Urna Rota. Doctor in Political Science from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels. His main area of ​​specialization is electoral systems, both in their causes and consequences, but he is also interested in party systems, comparative politics, the political participation of young people and the dynamics of electoral competition. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he combines his work with informative activities outside of the academy.

Chief of Mission, U.S. Mission to the European Union. Anthony L. Gardner was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union on February 18, 2014. Prior to assuming his current position, Ambassador Gardner was Managing Director for six years at Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in London that focuses on providing growth capital to fast growing businesses in a wide variety of service sectors throughout Western Europe. In that capacity he managed financing, legal and tax structuring issues related to the firm's acquisitions and divestitures. Previously, Ambassador Gardner served as an Executive Director in the leveraged finance departments of Bank of America and GE Capital and as a Director in the international acquisitions group of GE International.

Ph.D. in Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Doctor-member of the Juan March Institute. He has been Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (Boston, USA) and Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and the University of Essex (UK). He was a lecturer at the University of Essex, the George Washington University (Center of Madrid), the Open University of Catalonia, the Pablo Olavide University and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is currently a professor of Sociology. He also collaborates with the Fundación Alternativas, where he was the Deputy Director of Progress Studies. In addition, he is part of the Next Left group at the European Foundation for Progressive Studies.

He holds a degree in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1990) and an EMBA from IESE Business School at Universidad de Navarra (1998). He currently follows a Bachelor's Degree in History Studies at UNED University in Madrid and a post-graduate Master in Contemporary History at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He fluently speaks five languages. He has worked for the Spanish Navy (1992), different telecommunications companies (1993, 2000), and A.T. Kearney as Manager Consultant (1999-2000). Within Telefónica, he has worked as Business Development Manager for Telefónica Internacional (1994-1997) and Telefónica InterContinental (1998), International Projects and Synergies Director for Telefónica Móviles (2002-2006) and Telefónica España (2006-2007)...