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Diego López Garrido
is an economist,
has a Chair in Constitutional Law and is legal
consultant for the Spanish Cortes. Former
member of the Spanish Parliament and of the
NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was Secretary
of State for the European Union (2008-2011)
and coordinated the 2010 Spanish Presidency
of the EU. He also served as the Socialist
Group’s spokesman in the Congress of Deputies
and has been elected as MP for six terms. He
was member of the Convention for drafting
the European Constitution, representing the
Spanish Parliament (2002-2003). He is author
of many books on human rights, economics,
politics and European Community Law. His
last book (2015) is
The Ice Age. Bailing out the
welfare state in the era of austerity
, London
Publishing Partnership.
Juan Moscoso del Prado Hernández
has
been aMember of Parliament (MP) –
Congreso de
los Diputados
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
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 major of Pamplona.
Juan holds a PhD in Economic Sciences from
the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain),
a Master in Economic Sciences from the College
of Europe, Bruges (Belgium), and a Bachelor in
Economics from Kent University (UK).
He has been Associate Professor of Economy
at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Economics
Department (1997-2004). He has also worked
as an Economist and analyst at Analistas
Financieros Internacionales (AFI) (1993-1994)
–Spanish consulting firm–, at Banco Español
de Crédito (BANESTO), at the Economic and
Social Council of Spain (CES) 1994-2004, and
as an international consultant for the European
Commission and the International Labour
Organisation (ILO).
Juan has published 350 articles about politics,
economy and international relations in media
and specialised magazines. On April 2014 he
publishedhis latestbook,
Beingnowaprogressive
(Deusto), and before,
Entrepreneurship in
Spain, a scarce resource?
, (Instituto de Estudios
Económicos 2008). Lecturer, speaker, panellist,
professor, in all kind of forum (universities,
graduate schools, think-tanks, foundations),
participant in 200 conferences and seminars
in 61 different countries. Trustee and board
member of several relevant Foundations and
Think Tanks, he studied high school in Pamplona
and at the United States. Juan speaks fluent
French and English.
Vicente Palacio
is director of the Fundacioìn
Alternativa’s Observatory of Spanish Foreign
Policy and professor at the School of Interna-
tional Relations of the Instituto de Empresa. He
has directed and coordinated research for the
Socialist Group in the Spanish Parliament and
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
of Spain. Palacio has been associate professor
of International Relations at Syracuse University
and a Visiting Fellow and Visiting Researcher
at Harvard University’s Department of Govern-
ment. He is author of dozens of analyses and
articles for the specialised press on the subjects
of Spanish and EU foreign policy, transatlantic