Moderators and Speakers
Juan Lobato Gandarias
Mayor, Soto del Real
@juanlobato_es
Mayor of Soto del Real and Deputy in the Madrid Assembly. Born in Madrid in 1984. Juan has been a State Finance Technician since 2010 and graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Law and Business Administration and Management. In 2003, he was elected councilor, being the youngest councilor in Spain at 18 years of age. At the age of 22, he was the youngest candidate for Mayor in the Community of Madrid.
Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
Associate Professor, Classics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
As a classicist and historian of religion, he deals mainly with ancient Greek culture and its Christian reception. He has worked as a researcher in the Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte and in the universities of Harvard, Oxford, Zürich, and Bologna, and has lectured as invited professor in various academic institutions in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is the author, among other works, of the book Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity (2010) and of the commented edition of the 16th cent. Latin version of Aristotle’s Politics by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda was used to justify the Spanish conquest of America (2013). Besides his academic activity, Miguel has worked as a technical advisor for the Madrid Regional Government (Higher Education).
Susana Mañueco
Manager Social Innovation and International Relations, Fundación Cotec
@SManueco
After working in communication for a while, she decided to focus her enthusiasm and therefore her professional career on projects aimed at achieving a specific mission that somehow caused a positive change for people's lives. In Washington, D. C., she worked on international education projects at UNED. After that, she worked for six years at the Organization of American States, which allowed her to learn about the design, development and evaluation of social policies from the governmental and civil society spheres, the functioning of international organizations, and above all, opened the doors to the wonderful Latin American region. In Spain, she worked at the Club of Madrid, working on projects aimed at strengthening a more effective democracy worldwide.
Marta Peirano
Journalist and writer
@minipetite
She was the founder of ADN.es, attached to the management at eldiario.es, and regularly collaborates as a technology expert in magazines, radio, and television. She was a co-founder of Copyfight, Hack Hackers, and Cryptoparty in Berlin, where she has written essays on automata, notation systems, and a treatise on cryptography entitled The Net Activist's Little Red Book, prefaced by Edward Snowden. His latest book is an essay on network infrastructures, surveillance systems, and mass manipulation entitled The Enemy Knows the System. It will be published in June by the editorial Debate. His talk on surveillance, Why they watch me if I am nobody, is the most-watched TED in Europe.
Áurea Moltó
Managing Editor, Política Exterior
@aureamolto
Managing editor of Política Exterior and director of politicaexterior.com. She was an advisor for the State Secretariat for Global Spain, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation. She has a Communications degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a Master in Publishing from Universidad de Salamanca, and postgraduate studies in Contemporary Latin American Politics from Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset. In 2009 she was a senior visiting fellow at The Inter-American Dialogue (Washington DC). Aurea is a regular contributor to RNE, El País, Ethic magazine, and Latin American Advisor. Besides being passionate about international journalism, she actively advocates for the equal participation of women in international relations.
María Santoyo
Director International Master of Photography and Project Management, EFTI
She is a researcher, teacher, and independent curator specialized in the history of photography and the analysis of the image. She has more than fifteen years of experience working for companies within the cultural sector, ten of these years managing cultural projects in their entirety. As an independent curator, Santoyo has developed around ten projects, including Houdini: the Laws of Amazement, Jules Verne: the Limits of the Imagination, and Nikola Tesla: His is the Future, exhibitions that took place at the Telefónica Foundation in Madrid and other Spanish and Latin American venues between 2014 and 2017.
Román Escolano
Senior Advisor, Llorente y Cuenca
@roman_escolano
He is a member of the “Cuerpo de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado”. He graduated in Economics and Business Studies from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and holds an Advanced Management Program degree by IESE. He is Director of Institutional Affairs in BBVA, coordinating the overseas institutional activity of the bank, its participation in several fora and International Financial Institutions, and particularly, BBVA’s relationship with the European Union. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Director of the Economics Department of the Prime Minister’s Office. Before this, he was Advisor to the Secretary of State for the European Communities (1991-92), Counselor at the Spanish Embassy Economic Office in Thailand (1992-97), and Advisor at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
David Vegara
Secretary of State for the Economy (2004-2009)
Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. His professional beginnings are in the field of teaching as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Universidad Pompeu Fabra. He also studied at the London School of Economics. In the private sector and the financial world, he worked as an economist in the analysis department of Banco Sabadell. He is currently the executive director and risk director of Banco Sabadell.
Joshua Mintz
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, MacArthur Foundation
As Vice President, General Counsel (since 1994) and Secretary of the Foundation, Josh is responsible for the overall legal affairs of the Foundation worldwide and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team that advises the President of the Foundation on policy matters and strategic direction. He also coordinates the work of MacArthur Advisory Services, an initiative of the Foundation through which MacArthur staff with appropriate expertise advises other foundations, corporate donors, and individual donors on a range of issues and questions and help connect such donors to other external resources when appropriate. He is an officer and on the board of various affiliates of the Foundation.
José Ignacio Torreblanca
Office Director ECFR, Madrid
@jitorreblanca
He joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Madrid Office in September 2007. Previously he spent three years at Madrid's based Elcano Royal Institute for International Affairs as Senior Analyst for EU affairs. He has a doctorate in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and teaches political science and EU affairs at the distance learning University in Madrid (UNED). He is also a fellow at the Juan March Institute of Studies in Madrid. He has been Fulbright scholar in the European Union-US Program, Lecturer at the George Washington University in Washington DC and a researcher at the European University Institute in Florence.
Íñigo Alfonso
Anchorman "Las mañanas de RNE"
@inigoalfonso
RNE (RTVE) parliamentary correspondent in Congress. Degree in Journalism with an extraordinary mention at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Navarra (UNAV). Diploma of Advanced Studies at UNAV. Master in International Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid. Collaborator with the Juan March Foundation in the current analysis space 'The throbbing question' and biographical 'Memories of the Foundation'. At RNE, he has performed editing tasks for the morning newscast 'Spain at 8', and has directed and presented the nightly newscast '24 hours'. He has been editor of the economic and national information areas. He has been deputy editor of the 3pm newscast on TVE.
Cristina Manzano
Director esglobal
@ManzanoCr
She has a blog in the Spanish edition of the Huffington Post. She is a contributor to various media, such as El Periódico de Cataluña and OpenDemocracy, and has been a member of the HOY program, by Iñaki Gabilondo, on CNN +. He regularly participates as a panelist and speaker in meetings, seminars, and round tables on various international issues. She has also been deputy director-general of the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE), an independent think tank based in Madrid. Graduated in Information Sciences (Journalism branch) from the Complutense University of Madrid, she carried out post-graduate studies at the University of Maryland (United States), thanks to the obtaining of a Fulbright Scholarship.
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