Events

Dialogue on the challenges facing Spanish society today

Elisa Chuliá, Benito Arruñada and Elisa de la Nuez and Víctor Pérez-Díaz

On 11 September 2024 at 7 p.m., the Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue "Conversations in the public space. Dialogues on the challenges facing Spanish society today" with the participation of Elisa Chuliá, Benito Arruñada and Elisa de la Nuez and Víctor Pérez-Díaz.

Elisa Chuliá studied Magister Artium at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany) between 1983 and 1989. After completing postgraduate studies at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CEACS) of the Juan March Foundation (Madrid), she defended her doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid (1997). Since 2003 she has been a full professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), teaching in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, of which she was dean between 2007 and 2011.

Benito ArruñadaProfessor of Business Organisation at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Affiliated Professor of the Barcelona School of EconomicsResearch Associate at the Foundation for Applied Economic Studies (Fedea) and Coordinator of the Free Market Forum. Previously, after graduating from the Universities of Oviedo and Rochester, I was Professor and Chair at the Universities of Oviedo and León, and John M. Olin Visiting Scholar in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. Occasionally, I have taught at other universities, including Paris I, Sorbonne, Paris X, Nanterre, Singapore Management University, Frankfurt, UAM and Pablo Olavide.

Elisa de la Nuez Sánchez-Cascado is a State Lawyer on leave of absence and a partner in Public Law. A graduate in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (1980-1985), she joined the Corps of State Lawyers in 1988. She has held various positions in the public and private sectors, having been secretary of the Board of Directors of several companies. She was a founding partner of the consultancy firm Iclaves. She has taught at ICADE, the Complutense University of Madrid, the San Pablo-CEU University, the Institute of Tax Studies and ESADE. She is co-editor of the blog Hay derecho, as well as of the books published by the Foundation with the publishing house Península under the collective pseudonym "Sansón Carrasco": "¿Hay Derecho?" and "Contra el capitalismo clientelar", in addition to numerous specialist works.

Víctor Pérez-Díaz (Madrid, 1938). President of Analistas Socio-Políticos (ASP), Madrid. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Europaea. PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid as well as Visiting Professor at Harvard University, MIT Cambridge (MA), University of California, San Diego, New York University and the Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris. He is the author of some sixty books published in several languages, including "La Primacia de la Sociedad Civil" (Madrid, Harvard 1993), "La Lezione spagnola" (Bologna 2003) and "Markets and Civil Society" (New York 2009).

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is not responsible for the comments, opinions or statements made by the people who participate in its activities and which are expressed as a result of their inalienable right to freedom of expression and under their sole responsibility. The contents included in the summary of this conference, written for the Rafael del Pino Foundation by Professor Emilio González, are the result of the debates held at the meeting held for this purpose at the Foundation and are the responsibility of the authors.

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is not responsible for any comments, opinions or statements made by third parties. In this respect, the FRP is not obliged to monitor the views expressed by such third parties who participate in its activities and which are expressed as a result of their inalienable right to freedom of expression and under their own responsibility. The contents included in the summary of this conference, written for the Rafael del Pino Foundation by Professor Emilio J. González, are the result of the discussions that took place during the conference organised for this purpose at the Foundation and are the sole responsibility of its authors.

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