Events

A new era: the great challenges of the 21st century

Emilio Ontiveros and Mauro F. Guillén

On 29 October 2012, the Rafael del Pino Foundation and the Galaxia Gutenberg publishing house organised the presentation of the book by Emilio Ontiveros and Mauro F. Guillén, entitled "A new era: the great challenges of the 21st century". The book analyses the most salient turning points in global economic dynamics and the new trends that are emerging to form scenarios quite different from those dominant over the past century. The aim is not only to identify where the global economy is heading, but also to highlight the interplay between new trends and to highlight the possibilities for political action to influence them. 

The book makes special reference to the alteration in the distribution of power in global economic relations and the role played by emerging economies, which now account for half of the global economy and have companies that hold the world's industrial leadership positions. The book offers a vision of a world characterised by uncertainty and complexity that does not have the appropriate economic, political and geopolitical institutions to face the new challenges of a global world.

Emilio Ontiveros is founder and Chairman of Analistas Financieros Internacionales, S.A., Chairman of Tecnología, Información y Finanzas and of the School of Applied Finance,
companies of the AFI consultancy group. He is Professor of Business Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he was Vice-Rector for four years.

He is the author of numerous books and academic articles. He is a regular contributor to various media. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University and the Wharton School. He is a member of the boards of directors of several
Spanish companies.

Mauro F. Guillén is Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds the Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Chair in International Management at the Wharton School of Business. He is also Professor of Sociology at the Wharton School of Business.

Mauro F. Guillén has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and has held the Rafael del Pino Chair. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales and of the Advisory Board of the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and of the Research Service of La Caixa. 

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