The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 20 May 2024 at 7 p.m., the Dialogue ".Citizen confidence in capitalism and democracy"The event will be attended by Jordi Gual, Javier Gomá Lanzón and Lucía Méndez.
If you would like to attend, please contact the Foundation by e-mail at confirmaciones@frdelpino.es.
Jordi GualProfessor of Economics at IESE Business School. He is non-executive chairman of VidaCaixa. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Telefônica Brazil and of the Advisory Board of Telefónica España. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (1987) from the University of California-Berkeley and a Ph. Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. Between 2016 and 2021 he was Chairman of CaixaBank. Prior to assuming this position, he was Chief Economist and Executive Director of Strategic Planning and Research at CaixaBank and General Manager of Strategic Planning and Development at CriteriaCaixa. He has been a member of the Boards of Directors of Telefónica, Erste Group Bank and Repsol. He has also been Vice-President of Círculo de Economía and COTEC, and President of FEDEA. He has been Economic Advisor in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission in Brussels and visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley. Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Jordi Gual has published extensively on banking, European integration, regulation and competition policy. He is a regular contributor to "La Vanguardia" and other newspapers. His latest book is: Trust is priceless (Penguin Random House, April 2024).
Javier Gomá Lanzón is the author of a wide range of essays, including his Tetralogy of Exemplarity, a vast philosophical project to which the following titles belong: Imitación y experiencia (2003), for which he won the National Literature Prize, Aquiles en el gineceo (2007), Ejemplaridad pública (2009) and Necesario pero imposible (2013). The Tetralogy was published as a single work in 2014 and 2019. He is also the author of Ingenuity Learned (2011), Worldly Philosophy (2016), The Image of Your Life (2017) and Dignity (2019). Recently, he has also produced himself as a playwright with the theatrical trilogy Un hombre de 50 años, consisting of the plays Inconsolable, Quiero cansarme contigo (both premiered in renowned theatres in Madrid and the rest of Spain, the second with the title El peligro de las buenas compañías) and Las lágrimas de Jerjes. His latest book, Universal concreto. Método, ontología, pragmática y poética de la ejemplaridad (2023) is, as the author says in the prologue, the first book he wanted to write, perhaps the only one. He is director of the Fundación Juan March and director of the Cátedra de la Ejemplaridad/CUNEF Universidad, as well as a lawyer on leave of absence from the Council of State. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board of the Teatro Real and of the Advisory Board of the Fundación Ortega y Marañón.
Lucía Méndez PradaAfter graduating in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, she began her professional career at El Correo de Zamora, El Norte de Castilla and Cadena Ser. She later joined Diario 16 and in 1989 she participated in the founding of El Mundo, where she was parliamentary correspondent until 1996. After a two-year hiatus in the Secretary of State for Communication of the Presidency of the Government, she rejoined El Mundo, where she is editor-in-chief of Opinion and columnist. She collaborates in various audiovisual media as a political analyst, including Los Desayunos on TVE and La Brújula on Onda Cero. She is also a lecturer at Camilo José Cela University, a member of the Board of Directors of the Madrid Press Association (APM) and the author of two books, Duelo de Titanes and El poder es cosa de hombres, published by La Esfera de los Libros.
