Raphaël Schoentgen
Raphaël Schoentgen is a private entrepreneur and investor whose passions and expertise are technologies, energy, climate change, international business and international policy. In 2018 he created Hydrogen Advisors, a consultancy firm active both in the private sector – energy / transport / industry / investors – as well as in the public sector – international […]
Miguel Sánchez
Miguel Sánchez was born in Madrid in 1960. He entered the General Military Academy in Zaragoza in 1977 and later the Infantry Academy in Toledo. He graduated as Lieutenant in 1982 and was promoted to Colonel in 2009. He has held various positions in the General State Administration, both Civil and Military, including in HM […]
Fernando Ruiz Pérez
Fernando Ruiz Pérez has more than 23 years of experience at national and international level in the areas of cybersecurity and cybercrime, leading operational, technical, and strategic units. He is currently the Global Head of Respond in the Cyber Security Center of Banco Santander. In this role, he coordinates the global response to cyber incidents […]
Patrick Penninckx
Patrick Penninckx has spent the last 30 years of his career with the Council of Europe, contributing to the transformation processes of the Organisation and developing partnerships with international and national institutions. Currently heading the Information Society Department under the Directorate General Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Patrick coordinates standard setting and cooperation […]
Teresa Parejo-Navajas
Teresa Parejo-Navajas, PhD., serves as the Head of Sustainability with IBERIA since October 2019. Previously, she developed an extensive academic carrier as Associate Professor of Law at Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain). She holds an LLM on EU Law and is member of the Pascual Madoz Institute of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and Environment, in Spain, […]
The Hon. Ana Palacio
Ana Palacio was the first woman to serve as Foreign Minister of Spain, from 2002-2004. Before this, she was a member of the Spanish Parliament, where she chaired the Joint Committee of the two Houses for European Affairs. She also served as a member of the European Parliament, where she chaired the Legal Affairs and […]
The Hon. José Luis Martínez-Almeida
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés is the Mayor of Madrid since June 2019 and has been serving as a member of the City Council of Madrid since 2015. He was born on 17 April 1975 in the Spanish capital and studies Comillas Pontifical University to become a state lawyer in 2001. He has been a Director-General […]
Donato Martinez Perez de Rojas
Donato Martinez is Technology and Digital Transformation Vice-President, member of the Corporate Executive Board – NAVANTIA, S.A., S.M.E. Prior to this position, Mr. Martinez was based in Australia, where he was Navantia Australia Manager until 2017. In Australia he led the activities of the SEA 5000 program of future frigates for Australia and the Reform […]
Cristina Manzano
Cristina Manzano is the director if IE Insights, the thought-leadership publication of IE University. She also runs esglobal, a leading digital publication on global affairs in Spanish. Her experience includes various roles in journalism, notably as a columnist for El Pais and El Periódico de Catalunya, and as a regular commentator for different Spanish media, […]
Maureen Koetz
Maureen T. Koetz is the founder of Planet A* Strategies, a small, woman-owned consultancy to public and private enterprise on sustainability risk and value management. Applying operational analytics first developed for national security planning, she is an industry leader in quantification-based sustainability profiling using Geocapital Asset Management™, an advanced recapitalization programming model that optimizes enterprise […]
Othmar Karas
Othmar Karas (*1957, Ybbs/Donau) is an Austrian politician and, since 1999, Member of the European Parliament. In 2022 Karas was elected First Vice-President of the European Parliament. It is his third term (2012-2014, 2019-2022, Since 2022) as a Vice-President. Karas holds a diploma and doctoral degree in political science (University of Vienna) and a Master’s […]