Events

Keynote lecture by Johan Norberg

Lessons from the rise and fall of great civilisations

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising on 2 March 2026 at 19:00 the Master Lecture entitled «Lessons from the rise and fall of great civilisations»Johan Norberg will give a lecture on the occasion of the publication of the book of the same title published by Deusto. After the lecture, Professor Norberg will be in dialogue with Francisco Beltrán.

Johan Norberg is a Swedish author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker. He holds a Master's degree in History of Ideas from Stockholm University and a Master's degree in History of Ideas from Stockholm University. Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. He has written numerous books on global economics, science and human progress including Progress, Open, The capitalist manifesto y Peak Human, translated into more than 30 languages and recognised by Financial Times y The Economist. He has also presented several documentaries for US public television and has received numerous international awards for his contribution to public debate.

Francisco Beltrán is director of REMCO. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Valencia and in Political Science from the UNED, a postgraduate degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master in Government from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and a PhD in Political Science also from the UAM. He is Professor of Political Science at IE University, at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and at New York University Madrid. He has been Professor of Comparative Politics at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto between 2013 and 2021. Previously he was Visiting Professor at Lund University, Research Fellow at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Visiting Professor at Munk School of Global Affairs, Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Lecturer at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

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