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BIOGRAPHIES
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Education Administration (1995-1999), member
of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal for
seven terms (1980-2005), and member of the
Convention for the Future of Europe. He also
chaired the Commission which prepared the
Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage in
Contemporary Society (2005), was vice-presi-
dent of the UNESCO National Commission
(1988-1995), member of the National Education
Council, president of SEDES (1985-1995), po-
litical advisor to President Mário Soares (1986-
1991), and holds honorary doctorates from the
universities of Lisbon, Aberta and Lusíada. He
has been awarded the Cross of the Order of
Christ and the Order of Prince Henry the
Navigator and is a Knight of the Order of Isabella
the Catholic. He has written numerous books
on financial law, history and political science.
Vicente Palacio.
Director of the Foreign
Policy Observatory at Fundación Alternativas, and
associate professor of political science at Carlos III
University, Madrid. Doctor in philosophy from
Complutense University, Madrid. He has been a
visiting fellow and visiting researcher at Harvard
University (USA). He has lectured in International
Relations at Syracuse University and at the School
of International Relations at Instituto de Empresa,
Madrid. He has contributed to numerous reports,
projects and other documents on the European
Union and Spanish foreign relations, and in spe-
cialist publications in these areas, and has also
published on the United States, Latin America
and global governance. His most recent book is
Después de Obama: EE. UU. en tierra de nadie
[After Obama: USA in no-man’s land] (La Catarata,
2017). Forthcoming:
Soberanía y soberanismo
[Sovereignty and sovereigntism] (Marcial Pons).
He is a frequent media contributor, with his work
appearing in Spain’s
El País
newspaper and other
platforms and social media.
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.
Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez.
Economist
with more than 20 years’ professional experi-
ence. Graduate in Business Science from the
Autonomous University of Madrid (1995), Master
in Latin American Studies from Complutense
University, Madrid (1996) andMaster in Economic
Policy Management from Columbia University,
New York (2000). He has worked for various in-
ternational organizations, including the World
Bank, the European Commission and the African
Development Bank, and has also held a range of
posts in public bodies and state agencies in Spain
(including ICEX, AECID, FIIAPP, Ministry of Foreign
Relations, and Expansión Exterior). He has lived in
Spain, Argentina, the United States, Mexico and
Kenya. From July 2014 to October 2016 he was
Secretary of Economic Policy for the PSOE. Since
January 2018 he has been Director of Innovation
at the International University of Rioja (UNIR). He
is a regular contributor to policy think-tanks, in-
cluding Fundación Alternativas, Economistas
frente a la Crisis, Fundación Felipe González,
Policy Network and FEPS. Manuel has published
numerous articles and documents on topics in-
cluding economic policy, international trade,
global governance, development policies and the
euro crisis.
Nicolás Sartorius.
A lawyer and journalist
by profession, Sartorius is executive vice-presi-
dent of the Fundación Alternativas. Imprisoned
for several years during the Franco dictatorship
for his trade union activities, he was co-founder