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Cities at Times for Cultural Diplomacy: Cordoba in the face of Africa’s upturn
March 12, 20207:30 p.m.
CORDOBA
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
On Thursday, March 12, Casa Árabe has organized this conference in
Cordoba, to be given by Pablo Sánchez Chillón, a lawyer and expert on
Public Law, Urban Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
The event will be presented by Enrique Benítez Palma, an economist and advisor for the Accounts Office of Andalusia, and Javier Rosón, Casa Árabe’s coordinator.
Pablo Sánchez Chillón will be explaining his viewpoint about how Africa is facing a unique era of development, with countries like Morocco taking on the role of influential economic powers on the continent. The strengthening of solid cooperation networks based on the South-South vision, the creation of strategies for political and religious influence of a continental scope and the growing economic and cultural exchanges amongst countries in the region all foretell a period of growth and opportunities which Spain, as a privileged neighbor in the region, cannot remain on the sidelines of. Within this scenario that seems to indicate an improvement in living conditions and income in North Africa, an increase in tourists originating from the region and the expansion of intangible assets arriving from the territory as competitive factors, Cordoba, as a symbolic capital for dialogue and tolerance among cultures, must take full advantage of its potential in order to benefit from this equation of progress and development on both shores.
Conference information sheet
Pablo Sanchez Chillón is a lawyer and expert on Public Law, Urban Diplomacy and Public Affairs. With a bachelor’s degree in Law, he is a graduate in the Legal Sciences from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (1997), as well, and has taken further graduate courses to complement his education. He is a founding partner of the Sánchez Chillón Abogados legal firm (1997), where he currently practices his profession as an attorney, and of the Eolex Citylab Consultancy (2009), as well as a co-founder and director of the Foro Global Territorio (a Spanish thinktank that specializes in intangible assets from territories, with its headquarters in Alicante) and GlobalGOV. For the last eight years, Pablo has carried out intensive activities as an international speaker at the most important forums in the fields of Urban Innovation, Smart Cities and Smart Governance, as well as having become an advisor for different initiatives, the most notable of which include the My Neighbourhood project in Portugal and Elche Smart City in Spain. Furthermore, Pablo is the editor of the blog “Urban 360º,” which discusses the topics of cities, politics, government and urban innovation, with more than 136,000 readers (Nov. 2019).
Pablo Sánchez Chillón will be explaining his viewpoint about how Africa is facing a unique era of development, with countries like Morocco taking on the role of influential economic powers on the continent. The strengthening of solid cooperation networks based on the South-South vision, the creation of strategies for political and religious influence of a continental scope and the growing economic and cultural exchanges amongst countries in the region all foretell a period of growth and opportunities which Spain, as a privileged neighbor in the region, cannot remain on the sidelines of. Within this scenario that seems to indicate an improvement in living conditions and income in North Africa, an increase in tourists originating from the region and the expansion of intangible assets arriving from the territory as competitive factors, Cordoba, as a symbolic capital for dialogue and tolerance among cultures, must take full advantage of its potential in order to benefit from this equation of progress and development on both shores.
Conference information sheet
Pablo Sanchez Chillón is a lawyer and expert on Public Law, Urban Diplomacy and Public Affairs. With a bachelor’s degree in Law, he is a graduate in the Legal Sciences from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (1997), as well, and has taken further graduate courses to complement his education. He is a founding partner of the Sánchez Chillón Abogados legal firm (1997), where he currently practices his profession as an attorney, and of the Eolex Citylab Consultancy (2009), as well as a co-founder and director of the Foro Global Territorio (a Spanish thinktank that specializes in intangible assets from territories, with its headquarters in Alicante) and GlobalGOV. For the last eight years, Pablo has carried out intensive activities as an international speaker at the most important forums in the fields of Urban Innovation, Smart Cities and Smart Governance, as well as having become an advisor for different initiatives, the most notable of which include the My Neighbourhood project in Portugal and Elche Smart City in Spain. Furthermore, Pablo is the editor of the blog “Urban 360º,” which discusses the topics of cities, politics, government and urban innovation, with more than 136,000 readers (Nov. 2019).
