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.

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.