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and economics at Hamburg and holds a Ph.D. in
economics. After graduating, he worked for the
Institute of African Affairs and then for the
University of Hamburg. He joined FES in Portugal
in 1985, and has worked both at the
Foundation’s head office in Germany (where he
was director of the FES department for industri-
alized western countries from 2005 to 2006,
and director of the department of international
political analysis) and abroad (having directed
the foundation’s offices in Paris, London and
Stockholm).
His particular areas of interest include the
future of the welfare state, the process of
European integration, common European for-
eign and security policy, and the development
of social democracy in Europe.
Juan Moscoso del Prado Hernández
has
been a Member 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, econ-
omy and international relations in media and
specialised magazines. On April 2014 he pub-
lished his latest book,
Being now a progressive
(Deusto), and before,
Entrepreneurship in Spain,
a scarce resource?
(Instituto de Estudios
Económicos 2008). Lecturer, speaker, panellist,
professor, in all kind of forum (universities, grad-
uate schools, think-tanks, foundations), partici-
pant in 200 conferences and seminars in 61 dif-
ferent countries. Trustee and board member of
several relevant Foundations and Think Tanks.
Vicente Palacio
is director of the Fundación
Alternativas Observatory of Spanish Foreign
Policy and professor at the School of International
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 Government.
He is author of dozens of analyses and articles
for the specialised press on the subjects of
Spanish and EU foreign policy, transatlantic rela-
tions and EU-Latin American relations. His latest
book is
After Obama. The United States in No
Man’s Land
(Catarata, 2016). He is a frequent
contributor to the journal
El País
.