The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the Master Conference "The paradox of meritocracy: Challenges for talent in the 21st Century", to be given by Emilio J. Castilla, Professor of Business Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Rafael del Pino Professor, on 22 October at 19:00. After the keynote lecture, Professor Castilla will dialogue with: Pablo Rivas, Founder and CEO of Global Alumni & Entrepreneur, considered one of the most innovative business leaders in the world by Forbes or CIO Views Magazine. Maria Teresa ...

On 27 October 2025, the Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue "When territories are left behind: responses from a new economy", with the participation of Paul Collier and Jose Ignacio Torreblanca. Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He is also Academic Director at Oxford of the International Growth Centre, a collaboration between the LSE and Oxford Universities. Paul is also a board member of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and his work on natural resource management includes the book The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature ...

The Rafael del Pino Foundation and the United for History Foundation are organising, on 29 October 2025 at 7 p.m., the Keynote Lecture "The fusion between two worlds. History of what Spain built in America" to be given by Juan Miguel Zunzunegui on the occasion of the publication of his latest work "The day after the conquest: The history of what Spain built in America". Juan Miguel Zunzunegui is a Mexican writer, historian and academic. He holds a degree in Communication and a Master's degree in Humanities from the Universidad Anahuac. He is also a specialist in philosophy from the Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a postgraduate degree in Marxism and Historical Materialism from the Fundación de Investigadores Mar ...

Due to unforeseen schedules of the participants, the event is postponed. The new date will be communicated soon. The Rafael del Pino Foundation will soon organise the event "Crisis and resilience of the Euro. Proposals for strengthening the European monetary architecture" in which Luis Garicano will participate, on the occasion of the presentation of the book "Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro" by John H. Cochrane, Klaus Masuch and Luis Garicano. Luis Garicano is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics. He began his academic career at the Booth School of Bu ...