Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the University of the Basque Country. Graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of San Sebastián. Extraordinary End of Degree Award. In 2008, Josu Jon Imaz joined the Repsol Group as president of its subsidiary Petronor. In 2010, he assumed the Repsol Executive Directorate of Refining, also leading the Executive Directorate of New Energies. In 2012 he joined the Repsol Management Committee as General Manager of the Industrial and New Energies Area. Within his professional activity, and apart from his belonging to the Repsol group, Josu Jon Imaz held, from November 2011 to September 2014, the presidency of the Spanish Association of Petroleum Products Operators (AOP).

Executive director of the Václav Havel Library and a diplomat, politician, writer, and translator. He is the former president of the Aspen Institute Prague, a member of the Forum 2000 Foundation Program Council, former chairman of the Civic Democratic Alliance and a one-time senator of the Civic Democratic Alliance in the Parliament of the Czech Republic. He has served as ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom, the United States and the State of Israel. He was also the spokesman of President Václav Havel and political director at the Office of the President of the Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Charles University in Prague and of McGill University in Canada.

She brings over two decades of teaching, research and administrative experience to her classes in American Politics. As founding director of the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Dr. Sherman established the focal point for graduate education, research and public engagement on issues concerning women in public life. A former Research Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Dr. Sherman completed research on economic challenges facing women in the workplace, and the potential for statewide policies on family leave and comparable worth. Dr. Sherman hosted her own award-winning public radio program, Commonwealth Journal.

Mickey Edwards is Vice President and Program Director at The Aspen Institute. He was a member of Congress for 16 years, serving on the House Budget and Appropriations Committees and as a chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. After leaving Congress he taught for 11 years at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government before moving on first to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and then back to Washington, DC, as vice president of the Aspen Institute, where he directs a bipartisan fellowship for elected public officials. He is a frequent public speaker and has been a guest on many of the nation’s leading radio and television news and opinion broadcasts.

Doctor in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Master in Politics (London School of Economics), he has expanded his studies in Constitutional Law at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. Currently, a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having previously been Director of its Department of Public Law as well as Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha. He has been a member of the Central Electoral Board. He is Secretary of the Journal of Political Studies and a founding member of the Basque collective "Miguel de Unamuno". He has been Secretary-General of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Constitutional Law. He is a member of the European Institute of Federalism at the Swiss University of Freiburg.

Mike co-founded the Bezos Family Foundation in 2000 with his wife Jackie, their three children, and their spouses, all of whom serve as directors. Through investments in research, public awareness, advocacy and programs, the foundation works to elevate the field of education and improve life outcomes for all children along the continuum from birth through high school. Never shy to fill an unmet need, the foundation has pioneered two in-house programs, the Bezos Scholars Program at the Aspen Institute, The Aspen Challenge and Students Rebuild, to offer young adults a dynamic way to connect, learn about, and take action on critical local and global issues.

He is currently the Corporate Director for Europe of CAF, Development Bank of Latin America. Guillermo has a degree in Law and Economics from the Javeriana University (1977), later he did postgraduate studies in International Relations (Georgetown University) and in Conflict Management (Harvard University).

Tremlett is a Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics and is author of three works of history and non-fiction that have been translated into half a dozen languages. He is Contributing Editor at The Guardian based in Spain, specializing in long form international reportage and political analysis. He previously worked for The Economist. He won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2018. He is the author of Ghosts of Spain, and biographies of Catherine of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.

He has broad and intense litigating practice at every jurisdictional level of Spain’s Labour and Employment Courts. Member of European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA) since its founding and of the International Bar Association (IBA). He has been a part of the Board of the Foro Español de Relaciones Laborales (FORELAB) and currently sits on the board of the Asociación Nacional de Abogados Laboralistas (ASNALA), the two most relevant associations of labor and employment lawyers in Spain. Mr. Gil has served on the Board of the Madrid Bar Association, is a frequent speaker in legal conferences, and often authors publications regarding his field of expertise. He is a professor at the Universidad de Navarra/IESE, Centro Garrigues, and at the IE University.

He is a political scientist by vocation and training. He is editor of the blog Politikon and author of La Urna Rota. Doctor in Political Science from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels. His main area of ​​specialization is electoral systems, both in their causes and consequences, but he is also interested in party systems, comparative politics, the political participation of young people and the dynamics of electoral competition. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he combines his work with informative activities outside of the academy.