Moderators and Speakers
María Zabala
Journalist and writer
@iWomanish
She is a journalist, writer and speaker focused on Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship. She works with families, schools, students, teachers, and both public & private institutions, developing digital education initiatives such as workshops, conferences and ongoing education projects. She is an editing collaborator for several websites, hosts the annual DigCitSummitES event, and runs iWomanish, a platform in which she shares practical resources and reliable information for parents and educators, being family & technology her primary advocating cause. Her goal and commitment is to promote a safe, creative, positive, and responsible use of technology.
Helena Estrada
Consultora estratégica
@helena_estrada
She studied Law in the Universidad Católica Argentina, later she achieved a Master's Degree in Finance in ESEADE, Argentina. Helena worked in a corporate law firm, Negry Teijeiro Incera, later in a Merchant and Acquisition company, INFUPA, and for 10 years in a bank, Banco Privado de Inversiones SA. She is the mother of three children and has worked ad honorem for several nonprofit organizations, related to education and health issues. Helena is currently a member of G25, a nonprofit group focused on identifying, inviting, and tutoring capable and ethical persons from the private sector to engage and assume public responsibilities. Within G25, she created G25 Mujeres, especially focused on women.
Marian Ahumada
Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
She obtained her LL.B. at the Universidad de Valladolid and holds a Ph.D. in Law with special doctor europaeus mention and extraordinary honour recognition from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She also has a Diploma of Specialization in Constitutional Law and Political Science (special prize) from the Center for Constitutional Studies in Madrid. She won the National Award “Nicolás Pérez Serrano” for her doctoral thesis. She has been a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and Global Research and Jean Monet Fellow at NYU Law School. Between 2008 and 2011, while on special leave from the University, she was Director-General for Legal Coordination of Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency.
Manuel Torres
Managing Director, Strategy, Health & Public Service, Accenture
Manuel is a strategy consultant with international experience in public services and sustainability, he has led high social impact projects across different public and non for profit spaces in education, social security, employment services, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Manuel holds a degree in Economics from Madrid University and a PDD in management from IESE Business School.
Gaspar Atienza
Partner, Commercial and Financial Law department, J&A Garrigues, S.L.P.
He joined J&A Garrigues in 2000 and has worked in its Madrid office since its incorporation, except for the period 2002-2003, when he worked at Hunton & Williams in Washington DC, the USA, and the periods 2007-2008 and 2010-2011, in which he was in New York at NYU (visiting doctoral researcher) and transferred to the Garrigues offices in Sao Paulo, respectively. He develops his work in the Department of Commercial and Financial Law, specializing in the areas of banking, structured finance, mergers, and acquisitions, nationally and internationally. Gaspar is a member of the Madrid Bar Association and the Sao Paulo Bar Association as a consultant in foreign law.
David Blázquez
Manager at Amazon Web Services for Data Center Infrastructure and Energy Policy & Sustainabilit
@david_blzqz
Previously he was the Director of Programs and Development at Aspen Institute España. David is the editor of Americracia, a blog on US politics for Spanish newspaper El Mundo. He was HarvardX Teaching Fellow for Michael Sandel's Course “Justice”. He holds a BA and an MA in Philosophy from Complutense University, an MA/M.Phil. in Political Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and -thanks to the support of a Scholarship from La Caixa- a master's degree (MALD) from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Prior to Fletcher, David was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University (2011-2012). Prior to joining Aspen Institute España David worked as an advisor for Security Council issues at the Spanish Mission to the UN (New York).
Rocío Martínez-Sampere
Director, Fundación Felipe González
She has a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra University, a Master's degree in Economics and a Master's degree in Government and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. He worked as an analyst in the City and later in the Fabian Society, a foundation associated with the Labor Party, where he was active. Later he joined the Rafael Campalans Foundation, of which he continues to be a member of its Board of Trustees. She was head of the cabinet to Narcís Serra and advisor to Pasqual Maragall in the first progressive government that Catalonia had in democracy. In 2006 she was elected deputy for Barcelona in the Parliament, where she was the spokesperson for Economy and Budgets. He appeared and lost the primaries to run for mayor of Barcelona.
Cathy O'Neil
PhD Mathematics Harvard University
@mathbabedotorg
Author of the book "Weapons of mathematical destruction: How Big Data increases inequality and threatens democracy". It is Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University, post-doctorate in the Department of Mathematics at MIT and professor at Barnard College, where she published a series of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. In the private sector, she has worked as an expert in the analysis and management of quantitative information for the hedge fund DE Shaw in the midst of the credit crisis, and for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses the risk for holdings of hedge funds. coverage and banks. In 2011 she left finance and began working as a data scientist in the New York startup sector.
Beth Noveck
Director GovLab
@bethnoveck
She leads the Governance Lab (GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on “Opening Governance”. She is a Professor of Technology, Culture, and Society at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering and a member of the New York University Institute of Public Knowledge. She was the first New Jersey State Director of Innovation appointed by Governor Phil Murphy in 2018. Previously, Beth served at the White House as America's first Deputy Director of Technology and director of the White House Open Government Initiative. under the Obama presidency. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, appointed him Senior Advisor for the "Open Government".
Walter Isaacson
Professor, Tulane University
@WalterIsaacson
He has been president of CNN, executive director of Time magazine, and President of The Aspen Institute (USA). In his latest biography, Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography (Debate, 2018), Walter offers new discoveries about Leonardo's life and work, weaving a narrative that connects his works of art with his contributions to science. He is also the author of Einstein, his life and his universe (Debate, 2008); Steve Jobs (Debate, 2011); Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography, and he is co-author, with Evan Thomas, of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Born in New Orleans, Isaacson graduated from Harvard with a BA in History and Literature and subsequently received a Rhodes Scholarship from Pembroke College, Oxford University.
Juan Moscoso del Prado
Head of the Department for International Relations and Exterior Affairs for the CES
@JuanMoscosodelP
Member of Parliament (MP) in Spain between 2004 and 2016. As MP he was Spokesman of the Economy and Competitiveness Committee between 2014 and 2016, and before, Spokesman of the European Union Committee between 2006 and 2014, also, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Deputy Chair of the Spanish Delegation to the IPU Assembly. Previously, Juan has been a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Spain (PSOE) between 2012 and 2014 as Secretary for Europe (“shadow minister”). Also, between 2009 and 2012 he chaired the Spanish delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. In 2011 he was the PSOE candidate for the major of Pamplona. Juan holds a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
Sandy Parakilas
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Apple
@sandyparakilas
He led Facebook's operations team (2011-2012) and has been one of the most critical insiders of the company's privacy policy after the Cambridge Analytica case. He has worked as an advisor to the Center for Humane Technology and a product manager at Uber. In addition, he has led the operations teams at Uber and Facebook, designed the social media campaigns for some of the world's largest entertainment brands, and created several companies. Sandy publishes and lectures related to the technology industry and currently advises the Center for Humane Technology in the fight for healthier and healthier technology. His writings have been published in the New York Times and WIRED.
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