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relations and EU-Latin American relations. His
latest book is
After Obama. The United States
in No Man’s Land
(Catarata, 2016). He is a fre-
quent contributor to the journal
El País
.
María Pallares
is Programme Coordinator at
the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Madrid.
Previously, she has worked as research fellow for
Notre Europe (Paris), the Rafael Campalans
Foundation (Barcelona) and as free-lance con-
sultant. She holds a Master in European Affairs
from Sciences Po., Paris.
Ana Belén Sánchez
is the coordinator of the
sustainability department at the Alternativas
Foundation. On this area, she has worked on the
renewable energy field, sustainable mobility plans,
environmental education as well as on
climate change policies at local, national and
international level. Over the last years she has ad-
vised on green jobs creation, climate change and
sustainability to the European Commission,
International Labour Organization and
Sustainlabour Foundation among other organiza-
tions. Before, as the climate change expert of the
International Labour Organization (ILO) she has
advised trade unions, employers’ organizations
and labour ministries in Latin America and Asia on
policies to promote the creation of green and de-
cent jobs. She also worked at the energy and cli-
mate change department of the Trade Union
Institute on Health and Environment (ISTAS) linked
to the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras.
She has taken part of the climate change negotia-
tions under the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2005 as well at
the negotiations process of the 2030 Agenda and
the Sustainable Development Goals.
Nicolás Sartorius.
A lawyer and journalist by
profession, Sartorius is Executive Vice-President of
the Fundación Alternativas. Imprisoned for sev-
eral years during the Franco dictatorship for his
trade union activities, he was co-founder of
Comisiones Obreras and member of the Spanish
Parliament for the Spanish Communist Party and
Izquierda Unida for several terms up until 1993.
He participated in social and political negotiations
during the Spanish Transition. Since that time, he
has devoted the greater part of his time to writ-
ing. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers
such as
El País
and is the author of numerous es-
says including
El resurgir del movimiento obrero
,
El sindicalismo de nuevo tipo
,
Un nuevo proyecto
político
,
Carta a un escéptico sobre los partidos
políticos
,
La memoria insumisa: sobre la dictadura
de Franco, El final de la Dictadura: la conquista de
la libertad en España
and contributor to
Una nue-
va globalización: propuestas para el debate.
Carlos Trias
is member of the European
Economic and Social Committee representing
consumers from January 2009, and from April
2013 to October 2015 President of Consultative
Commission on Industrial Change. From
December 2007 he is also Manager of Asociación
General de Consumidores (ASGECO) and
Manager of Unión de Cooperativas de
Consumidores y Usuarios de España (UNCCUE),
representative of these entities in Consumers
International, and ACI Consumers Europe.
Antonio Villafranca
is Research
Coordinator and Head of the European
Programme at the Italian Institute for
International Political Studies (ISPI-Milan). He
teaches European Policies at the Bocconi
University and at the IULM University in Milan.
At ISPI, he has been in charge of research pro-
jects funded by the European Commission and,
in network with the London School of
Economics, he is currently coordinating a pro-