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José Manuel Albares.
Career diplomat. He
has served as Spanish Consul in Colombia and
member of the Permanent Delegation of Spain
to the OECD in Paris, during which time he filled
the position of Vice-Chairman of the organisa-
tion’s Development Assistance Committee
(DAC). José Manuel Albares has also held the
positions of Acting Director General for Africa
and Deputy Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at
the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cooperation and Director of the Department
for Cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa in the
AECID. Ha has coordinated the electoral pro-
gram of the Socialist Party (PSOE) on foreign af-
fairs in the last Spanish general elections. He is
the author of various studies on foreign policy
and external action, as well as numerous press
articles on these topics. He has been visiting
professor at the l’Institut d’Études Politiques in
Paris (Sciences-Po) and has led and participated
in several summer courses at the Complutense
and Menéndez Pelayo Universities. He holds a
Bachelor of Laws and a Diploma in Business
Studies from the University of Deusto. He holds
as well a diploma of National Defence Course
(Ceseden).
Francisco Aldecoa Luzárraga.
Professor of
International Relations at the Complutense
University of Madrid (2000) and formerly pro-
fessor at the University of the Basque Country
(1990). He has held the Jean Monnet chair, con-
ferred by the European Commission, since 1994
and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the
University of Bucharest in 2009. Aldecoa is a
disciple of Antonio Truyol y Serra, a distin-
guished professor and theorist on the process of
European construction. From May 2002 to May
2010, he served as Dean of the Political Science
and Sociology Faculty of the Complutense
University of Madrid. He was president of the
Spanish Association of Professors of International
Law and International Relations from 2005 to
2009. He is the current Director of the Centre
for Studies in Management, Analysis and
Evaluation at the Complutense University of
Madrid.
Manuel Ausaverri
has been Director of
Innovation, Strategy and Alliances at Indra since
2015. Head of corporate units responsible for
strengthening the company’s technological and
business leadership in these three areas,
Ausaverri designed and implemented the new
model of open innovation employed by Indra
and its Office of Strategic Projects. In addition to
a degree in civil engineering, he earned an MBA
through IESE.
Prior to joining Indra, he accumulated twen-
ty years of professional experience in the fields
of business and corporate management, during
fourteen of which he worked as a strategic
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