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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 coordi-
nated the electoral program of the Socialist Party
(PSOE) on foreign affairs in the last Spanish gen-
eral 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).
José Enrique de Ayala.
Brigadier General
of the Army, retired. Ayala holds diplomas from
the Spanish Army General Staff and Joint Staff
Colleges as well as a degree in International
Relations from the Centre for International
Studies. He has served as military attaché to the
Spanish Embassy in Germany, and as Chief of
Staff of the Eurocorps.
An international policy analyst specialized
in the European Union, he collaborates with
numerous media both written and audiovisual.
He is a member of the European Affairs Advisory
Committee of Fundación Alternativas.
Carlos Carnero.
Managing Director of
Fundación Alternativas. Carnero has served as a
member of the European Parliament (1994-
2009), Spanish ambassador-at-large for European
integration 2009-2012), and Vice-President of
the Party of European Socialists (2006-2009). He
was also a member of the Convention that draft-
ed the European Constitution. He has collabo-
rated on several books, including
Construyendo
la Constitución Europea. Crónica política de la
convención
,
Manual de instrucciones de la
Constitución Europea
,
Europa en la encrucijada
and
La diplomacia común europea: el servicio
europeo de acción exterior
,
Gobernanza
económica de la Unión Europea y salida de la
crisis
. Carnero holds a degree in Tourism. He is a
professor in the master programme on EU of the
Institute of European Studies at the University CEU-
San Pablo. Carnero is member of the Scientific
Council of Real Instituto Elcano. The Spanish gov-
ernment awarded him the Order of Constitutional
Merit and the Order of Civil Merit for his work
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