Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros Rendiles is a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros.
Pilar del Castillo Vera is a Spanish politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. She previously served as Minister for Education, Culture and Sport in the government of Prime Minister José María Aznar from 2000 to 2004.
Ana Isabel de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi in Madrid, daughter of Luis María de Palacio y de Palacio, 4th Marqués de Matonte, and wife Luisa Mariana del Valle Lersundi y del Valle, was Spain's minister for foreign affairs in the People's Party (PP) government of José María Aznar from July 2002 to March 2004. Before this she was a lawyer in Madrid and then a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2002. In March 2012, she was appointed an elective member of the Spanish Council of State. She currently is the founding partner of Palacio y Asociados, a Madrid-based consulting and law firm, and a senior strategic counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm.
The University of Navarra is a private research university located on the southeast border of Pamplona, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei. The University of Navarra has consistently been ranked as the best private university in Spain. In 2021, the university's School of Law was ranked best in Spain and 44th in the world by Times Higher Education's international rankings.
IESE Business School is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. Founded in 1958 in Barcelona where its main campus is located, IESE in 1963 formed an alliance with Harvard Business School (HBS) and launched the first two-year MBA program in Europe. IESE has campuses in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, New York and São Paulo.
Ferrovial, S.A., previously Grupo Ferrovial, is a Spanish multinational company involved in the design, construction, financing, operation (DBFO) and maintenance of transport infrastructure and urban services. It is a publicly traded company and is part of the IBEX 35 capitalization-weighted stock market index. The company is headquartered in Madrid. Ferrovial operates through four divisions in over 5 countries. Its Highway division finances and operates toll roads including 407 ETR, North Tarrant Express, LBJ Express, Euroscut Azores and Ausol I. The Airport sector has developed and produced airports in Heathrow, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton. Its Construction business designs and constructs public and private works such as roads, highways, airports and buildings. The company's Services sector oversees the maintenance and conservation of infrastructure, facilities and buildings, the collection and treatment of waste, and other types of public services.
Dr. Rafael Termes i Carreró was born in Sitges, Barcelona. Although he graduated as an Industrial Engineer, he chose a career in finance and banking. Termes was founder and teacher of the IESE Business School and also a director of IESE's Madrid campus since 1997, position that ceased in June 2000, to become honorary president of the IESE in Madrid. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and of the Academy of Economics and Finance and a member of Opus Dei.
Baldomero Falcones, was the Chairman and CEO of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), a European service and construction group. FCC is included in the IBEX-35 index, which comprises the 35 most important companies on the Spanish Stock Market.
The Colegio Santa María del Pilar, known also as Colegio Santa María, is a Roman Catholic private primary, middle and high school founded by the Society of Mary in Madrid, Spain. The school campus is one of the largest in central Madrid and its listed chapel, built in the 1950s, is one of the finest examples of early Spanish moderne brick vaults.
Rafael Navarro Garralaga is a Spanish art photographer.
Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo is a Spanish billionaire businessman, the executive chairman of Ferrovial, the company founded in 1952 by his father Rafael del Pino Moreno.
Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga y Salamanca is a Spanish linguist and high-ranking civil servant, with a wide administrative, academic and political activity. He is rector of Abat Oliba CEU University of Barcelona. He has been Secretary-General of Instituto Cervantes.
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, US: The RCC at Harvard is an academic institution aimed at providing intellectual exchange between Harvard and the Spanish Academia. It is located at 26, Trowbridge Street, Cambridge (MA).
Óscar Fanjul Martín is a Spanish economist.
Isak Andic Ermay is a Spanish billionaire businessman, the founder and largest shareholder in the clothing retail chain Mango.
Patricia "Patty" Phelps de Cisneros is a Venezuelan art collector and philanthropist who focuses on Latin American modernist and contemporary art from Brazil, Venezuela, and the Río de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. Since the 1970s Cisneros has supported education and the arts, with a particular focus on Latin America. Along with her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, she founded the New York City and Caracas-based Fundación Cisneros. In the 1990s the Fundación's primary art-related program became the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. In 2016, Cisneros donated 102 modern and contemporary artworks from the 1940s to 1990s to the Museum of Modern Art, establishing the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America at MoMA.
María del Pino y Calvo-Sotelo is a Spanish billionaire, and the eldest child of the late billionaire Rafael del Pino y Moreno, who founded Ferrovial.
Fernando Pereira Soler, civil engineer, university professor and third dean of IESE Business School. His book "Accounting for Management", first published in 1970, is in its 25th edition.
Javier Moreno Luzón is a Spanish historian, professor of the History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is an expert in the political history of Restoration Spain.
Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys is a Spanish architect.
