Graduated in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an Official of the Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists since 1999. He has worked as the General Director of Internationalization of the Company of ICEX Spain Export and Investments. He developed his professional career as Chief Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Commercial Offices of Ankara (Turkey), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia); Subdirectorate General for Trade with African and Middle Eastern countries of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce; Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and Executive Advisor to the Director-General of the National Police of the Ministry of the Interior; Subdirectorate General of Foreign Investments of the Ministry of Economy...

Director of the Carlos III-Juan March Institute of Social Sciences of the Carlos III University of Madrid and Professor of Political Science at said University. He has been a professor at the University of Salamanca, at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was also The Rice Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University in the years 04-05. He has published numerous research papers on comparative politics (especially on political violence), theory of democracy, public opinion, and other similar topics. His articles have appeared, among many others, in journals such as The Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Annual Review of Political Science, European Union Politics, The Journal of Peace Research, and Politics & Society.

Ph.D. from Harvard University, he has been awarded by the American Sociological Association and the Historical Society for his research on revolutions and social change. He has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, U.S. Institute of Peace, and National Science Foundation. He led a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences on USAID's democracy aid program and worked with USAID, DIFD, and the US department of state and defense department to develop programs in fragile countries. Goldstone focuses on studying the conditions that allow for democracy and stability in growing countries, the impact of population changes on the global economy and international security, and the cultural origin of modern economic growth.

He writes columns for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Financial Times, Politico, and other publications. He is Chairman and editor-in-chief of InFacts and Deputy Chair of the People's Vote campaign. He is also co-founder of CommonGround. His most recent book is "The In/Out Question: Why Britain Should Stay in the EU and Fight to Make it Better". He founded Breakingviews in 1999, was editor in chief and chairman until it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2009, and continued to edit it until 2012. Before founding Breakingviews, Hugo spent 13 years at the Financial Times, the last five as Head of Lex. He studied at Eton College, Brackenbury Scholar, and later received a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Balliol College at Oxford University.

He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1988 and worked in the Human Rights Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he was the Director CSCE Department in the same Ministry. From 1993 to 1995 he was Deputy Head of Mission in the Spanish Embassy in Beirut (Lebanon). He has served as Assistant to the EU Mediator for the Balkans, Carl Bildt (1995-1996); Deputy Director-General for Central and Southern Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid (1996-2000). He worked in The Spanish Embassy in Nicosia (Cyprus) as Chargé d’Affaires from 2000 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005 he was the Deputy Director-General for CFSP and European Correspondent in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is a Dr. Agronomist (U Politécnica de Madrid) and Doctor in Ecology, University of California, Davis, where he worked for 10 years, before returning to Spain in 1982 to occupy the chair of agronomy at the School of Agricultural Engineers of the University From Cordoba. He collaborated on scientific policy issues in the 1980s under the direction of Juan Rojo and was president of the CSIC and Secretary of State for Universities and Research between 1991 and 1994. His specialty is the use of water in agriculture. He has been a consultant for numerous international organizations such as FAO, UNESCO, the World Bank, among others, in more than 30 countries. He has also advised on issues of evaluation of teaching and university research. He has published more than 150 articles.

She is the creator of MyWord, a data analysis company contributing, among others, to the Observatorio program for Cadena Ser. She has been the President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) (Center for Sociological Investigations). She earned a doctorate in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, holds a master in Social Sciences from the Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, where she is also a doctor member. For the last 15 years, she has acted as a consultant on public relations and public opinion. She was a professor at the Universidad Complutense for seven years, and an investigator in numerous universities abroad. She has authored two books and a number of academic articles.

He has also worked at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He earned a doctorate from the University of California in San Diego specializing in game theory, experimental economics, industrial organization, the economics of networks, and mechanism design also known as reverse game theory. He is an associate editor at the Journal of the European Economic Association and SERIEs, and was previously the editor of BEPress Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy and the magazine Investigaciones Económicas. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, Physical Review Letters, and other scientific magazines. http://www.eco.uc3m.es/~acabrales/.

He is a member of the firm's board of directors and the global director of talent and people. Since joining McKinsey in 1998, Alejandro has worked for a large number of leading international companies in their selected sectors, primarily in the areas of Corporate Finance and Strategy, and in the areas of Banking and Infrastructure. He has also participated in various transformations in the public sector. In the past, Alejandro was the leader of the Corporate Finance and Private Equity practices at Iberia. Currently, he is a member of the team of leaders of the Banking and Infrastructure practices. He graduated in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Navarra, and has an MBA from IESE.

Director of Wayra Spain (Telefonica’s start-up accelerator, with full-time academies in both Barcelona and Madrid). He is also an associate professor and the entrepreneur-in-residence at IE Business School and was previously the managing director of the Venture Lab at IE Business School. In 2006, Gary founded nuroa.es (a property search engine operational in 12 countries) with his business partner, Oriol Blasco. To date, nuroa has raised more than €3 million in financing. Prior to founding nuroa, Gary worked as a corporate lawyer specialized in mergers and acquisitions and securities law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in London and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Barcelona and Madrid, and as a summer litigation association at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Washington DC.

Todd has published and lectured widely on the great books, political philosophy, theology, literature, and liberal education. He serves on several non-profit boards, is a recipient of research and curriculum grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), and the Templeton Foundation, and is editor emeritus of The American Oxonian, the quarterly publication of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars. He is the editor of Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern (University of Chicago Press, 1999), co-editor of Philosophy, Politics, and the Conversation of Mankind (Colorado College, 2016), and author of On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Senior editor of The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg View, where he also sits on its board of editors. He is also a former Washington correspondent for the Financial Times and previously for The Economist. Born in Yorkshire, he was educated at the Bolton School, Magdalen College, Oxford University and the London School of Economics. After finishing university he held a position in Her Majesty The Queen of England's Treasury Secretariat and in the government economic service and was an advisor to the World Bank. He currently lives in Washington DC.