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 Castilla, on 22 October at 19:00. Emilio Castilla is Professor of Business Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Rafael del Pino Professor. Castilla joined the MIT Sloan faculty in 2005, after having been a member of the Department of Business Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently co-director of the MIT Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, as well as a research associate at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center and the Wharton Resource Center, where he is also ...

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 ...

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 ...