He has previously been a professor at the University of Oxford (2009-2011), where he obtained his doctorate in 2003, and at the Maxwell School of Public Policy, Syracuse University (2004-2007). Graduated in 1996 from the University of Santiago de Compostela, he later trained at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Juan March Foundation, of which he is an associate member. His research focuses on the political origins and consequences of inequality, with a particular interest in the study of federalism, decentralization, and comparative tax systems. His most recent book is The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press), chosen as the best book on European politics published in 2012 by the American Political Science Association.

Born in Padova, he received his Laurea in “Economia e Commercio” in 1982, from Universita' "Ca' Foscari" in Venezia. Then he went to the University of Rochester to attend graduate school in 1983. In 1987 he received a Ph.D. with a Thesis titled "Stable, Cyclic and Chaotic Dynamics in Models of Economic Optimization Over Time". Lionel W. McKenzie was his Thesis Advisor. Since then, he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago (1986-87) and has held regular teaching positions at UCLA (1987-1990), MEDS at J.L. Kellogg GSM (1990-94) and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1994-1999). After he joined the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1999. In the Fall of 2006, he joined the Economics Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.

Portuguese academic and politician. He was the Portuguese Minister for Regional Development from April 2013 to October 2015. Formerly, he was Director of the Global Governance Program and professor of law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Poiares Maduro was also a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at Yale University in the USA. He was also Advocate General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (2003-2009)

(Minneapolis, 1953) holds the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorships of Political Science at Harvard University and is one of the world's leading authors in the field of political philosophy. The course on justice he has taught there for two decades is the most popular at the university. Author of numerous works, in Castilian, have been published Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (2002), Against perfection (2007), Public philosophy: essays on morality in politics (2008) and Justice. Do we do what we should? (Debate, 2011). He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

He writes the Bello column on Latin America and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He is based in Madrid. He joined The Economist in 1990 as Mexico and Central America correspondent and in 1994 changed to cover consumer industries. In 1996 he moved to São Paulo to be the bureau chief and in 1999 returned to London as Americas Editor, a post he held until December 2013. His books include “Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul” (2007) and “Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power” (April 2014), both published by Yale University Press. Mr. Reid is a frequent speaker on Latin American and Iberian affairs, to business, academic, and public policy audiences. He is also a frequent guest on television, radio and print outlets in several countries.

Before joining ESADE, Professor Vives was a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Vives has participated in executive education programs in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has designed, taught and worked in multinationals in different sectors including financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, wines and spirits, logistics and industrial companies such as FIA, APM Terminals - Maersk Group, Bayer, Telefónica, Roland DG, and more. As an expert in strategy, he has supported CEOs and management teams in strategy and talent development.

Lorenzo Zavala is Managing Partner based in the Mexico City office of NGS Global. Mr. Zavala brings over 30 years of executive search and leadership consulting experience advising multinational corporations aiming to expand operations into other countries and business sectors. Prior to joining NGS Global, Mr. Zavala was Director and owner of Zavala Civitas, a firm launched in 2002 which offered executive search services in Spain, Brazil, Mexico and China. Previously to that, he was a partner at Russell Reynolds, where he led as Managing Director and launched the Mexico, Argentina and Brazil offices. Over the past five years, Mr. Zavala has lectured on “Power and Influence” in at ESADE Business School, in Madrid and Barcelona, as well as the Instituto Universitario Europeo (IUE) in Flo

Since 1991, Hafrey has worked in professional ethics, with a focus on ethical leadership, teaching courses at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan, and consulting with professional practitioners in the United States and abroad. At MIT Sloan, he teaches in the MBA program and Leaders for Global Operations, for which he moderates a mandatory two-year leadership course. He has also taught at MIT’s Industrial Liaison, MIT-China Management Education, Master of Finance, Management of Technology, Nanyang Fellows, Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership, Supply Chain Management, and System Design and Management programs. Since 1996, Hafrey has moderated the Aspen Institute’s Seminar in Leadership, Values, and the Good Society and others.

José M. de Areilza is Secretary General of Aspen Institute España and has a dual appointment as Professor at the Law Department and at the General Management and Strategy Department of ESADE Business School. He is the holder of the Jean Monnet Chair-ESADE and a Senior Research Fellow, Elcano Royal Institute. He has been Visiting Professor at INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France and has worked as Advisor to the Spanish Prime Minister on European and North American affairs. José M. de Areilza received an LL.B. degree with Special Graduation Prize from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and holds a Masters degree (LL.M.) and Doctorate degree (S.J.D.) from Harvard University and an M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution. Located steps from Independence Hall in Historic Philadelphia, the Center engages millions of citizens as an interactive museum, national town hall, and provider of nonpartisan resources for civic education. Rosen became President and CEO in 2013 and has developed the Center’s acclaimed Interactive Constitution, which brings together the top conservative and liberal legal scholars in America to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement about every clause of the Constitution. The online resource has received more than 30 million hits since launching in 2015.

Author of the Tetrology of exemplarity and a theatrical trilogy. He is also the Executive Director of the Juan March Foundation. He was awarded degrees in Classical Philology (1998) and Law (1992) at the Complutense University of Madrid. He later completed his doctoral degree in Philosophy at the National University of Distance Education, graduating cum laude. He defended his thesis in 2001 on imitation (which he would later call exemplarity) as an ethical guideline. In 1993 he passed the civil service examinations for the Spanish Council of State, placing first in his cohort. He studied law and prepared for the civil service examinations in only three years. In 1996 he started working at the Juan March Foundation (based in Madrid), of which he was appointed director in 2003.

President of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona-Madrid). He is also chairman of the Aspen Institute España, distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, honorary president of the Centre for Human Dialogue (Geneva), member of the board of the International Crisis Group, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Human Rights Watch, and a senior visiting professor at the London School of Economics (awarded an Honorary Degree in December 2010). Previously, Solana served as the European Union’s High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, secretary-general of the Council of the European Union, and secretary-general of NATO. He held different ministerial portfolios in the Spanish government.