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Francisco Aldecoa
has been Chair of
International Relations in the Department of
International Public Law and International
Relations of the Faculty of Political Science and
Sociology at the Complutense University of
Madrid since 2000, having previously served as
chair of the same discipline at the University of
the Basque Country (1990-2000). He has also
held a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies
(conferred by the European Commission) since
1994 and was awarded an honorary doctorate by
the National School of Political and Administrative
Studies of the University of Bucharest in 2009.
Aldecoa studied under the late Antonio Truyol y
Serra, former co-director of the Complutense
University of Madrid’s Centro de Excelencia
Antonio Truyol and one of Spain’s most highly re-
spected theorists on the process of European con-
struction. Dean of the Complutense’s Faculty of
Political Science and Sociology from May 2002 to
May 2010, Aldecoa has also served as president
of the Spanish Association of Professors of
International Law and International Relations
(2005-2009) and director of the Complutense’s
Centre for Studies in Management, Analysis and
Evaluation (2012-2016). In addition to being the
co-chair of the Federal Council of the European
Movement since 2013, he is also a member of the
Scientific Council of the Real Instituto Elcano
(2001-present), the Consejo Académico Eurola-
tinoamericano (2012-present) and the Advisory
Board of the United Nations University Institute
on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-
GCM) (2015-present).
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 audio-visual. He is a member of the
European Affairs Advisory Committee of
Fundación Alternativas.
Prof. Dr.
Daniel Buhr
is Head of the Steinbeis
Transfercenter for Social and Technological
Innovation and Associate Professor of Policy
Analysis and Political Economy at the Faculty of
Economics and Social Sciences of the Eberhard
Karls University Tübingen in Germany. He con-
ducts transdisciplinary research and teaches at
the interface between politics and economics
with a special focus on economic and innovation
policy (i.e. Industrie 4.0, IoT) as well as on social,
health and care policy. Daniel Buhr has been ad-
vising various Ministries, parliaments, associa-
tions and think-tanks on the (inter)national and
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