Art as a builder of humanity

Degree in Neuropsychology, University of Turin. PhD in International Politics in Central Asia, Master in Islam and Islamic Culture, University of Toledo. Master’s Degree in Multiple Intelligences at Harvard University and master’s degree in the Neuroscience of Compassion and Altruism at Stanford University. Director at UNESCO, Institute of XXI Century Competences. At present promotes well-being in global institutions with Dr. Richard J. Davidson through The Wellbeing Planet Foundation which has 4600 volunteers, and more than 2.5 million people have already benefited from their actions. Outstanding Inner Peace Award 2023 – Luxembourg Peace Prize.

Colombian painter, sculptor and poet who gained the recognition international. His creations include drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital art works. A self-taught author who started his activity in Colombia and for years traveled around the USA and Europe, set up his workshop and domicile in Catalonia in 2000. Exhibits regularly in Europe, America, and South Korea. In his works, color, and shape merge to communicate suggestive questions and situations that try to penetrate the mystery of the human being. His searching is to unite the aesthetic with the ethical, based on the premise that art is a generator of humanity. Creator of the “Peace Chair”, a sculpture that since 2016 has become the symbol of the Luxembourg Peace Prize awarded by the Schengen Peace Foundation. Creator of “The Question” – a sculpture that represents the WPF Barcelona 2023 about “What is Human Being?” applied to our motto “Quo Vadis World?”.

Director General of the Fundació Pau Casals. President of the Cercle de Cultura de Barcelona. Cultural manager and archaeologist. Master’s degree in Public Administration (EMPA. ESADE), Bachelor’s degree in Geography and History (Archaeology) UB; Diploma in Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (DEA) UB. Member of the team of independent experts of the European Commission for the selection and evaluation of the Cultural Capitals of Europe (2011-2016). Member of the UNESCO expert group for the Culture, Development and Governance programme of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005 (2011-2015). International consultant in culture, development and urban regeneration projects. He has directed and advised projects in different cities and territories in Europe, Asia and America. Among others, the new Museu do Imagem e Som (in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Under construction), the promotion of the Museum of Carnival in Montevideo; the cultural plan for the city of Jenin (Palestine), or the “Master Plan” of the Forbidden City of Hué (Vietnam) UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the public sector he has been director-manager of the CCCB, project director of the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, managing director of the Archaeological Park and Museum of

Spanish film director, television presenter and influencer. Miriam Victoria started modelling at the age of 14. She was on the cover of several fashion magazines, worked in Milan, Paris and New York and modelled for the designer Valentino. She was a presenter, together with Txiki Begiristain, on the sports programme Canal 33 and TV3. She studied Business Administration and Foreign Trade in London. She founded the company Maxim Models, a modelling agency and event organiser, which was acquired in 2015 by a national holding company. She organised fashion shows for Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, Guillermina Baeza, Dolores Cortés, Joaquin Verdú, José Castro, Debota&Lomba, Rosa Clará, Pedro Morago, Marithé Francois Girbaud, Toni Miró, Escada and Salvatore Ferragamo among others. Since mid 2021, she has directed the digital magazine DEMODA and presents a fashion, beauty, health and trends programme called PROGRAMA TV DEMODA, which is broadcast on Canal 4 and 43 television stations throughout Spain. She also collaborates in various media and does image work. In 2018 she created the brand Angels Influencers to give visibility to charitable causes and promote wellbeing and social awareness.