The economy, essential to achieve global peace

President of M & A FUSIONES Y ADQUISICIONES. He has a degree in Business Sciences from ESADE. Partner and founder in 1988 of M & A FUSIONES Y ADQUISICIONES. General Advisor in the Cercle d’Economia and promoter of the Promoción de Humanidades y Economía, publishing company of the Maleta de Portbou. Regular contributor to Crónica Global and the Periódico de Cataluña.

Executive President of the European Mediterranean Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (IEMed) and president of the General Assembly of EuroMeSCo, a network of “think tanks” on Euro-Mediterranean studies. A career diplomat, he has a degree in Economic Sciences and Law from the UB and is licensed in International Studies. He has been General Consul of Spain in Berlin and Rome, and Spanish ambassador in Tunisia. In 1996 he was the first secretary in the Spanish Embassy to UNESCO. Since 2018, he has been Ambassador, permanent representative of Spain to the United Nations Office and the International Organizations based in Vienna. He has served as president of the Mediterranean Committee of the European League for Economic Cooperation (LECE) and vice president of the Spanish Section.

Catalan journalist, specialized in international politics. Graduate in Journalism and Law. He was Deputy Director and Deputy Director of La Vanguardia and its correspondent in London and Washington. He is currently a commentator and appears in different gatherings on different media, such as RAC1, TV3 and 8TV. In 2014 he received the Quim Regàs Prize for Journalism for his “dense work from all informative angles, as well as its quality, rigor and demand”, and in 2026 he received the Primi Josep Pla for narrative for the second part of his memoirs, “ “That revolving door.”