With the participation of: Haizam Amirah Fernández and Gonzalo Escribano, researchers at the Real Instituto Elcano. Moderated by: Manuel Torres Aguilar, director of the UNESCO Chair for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cordoba.

Main Researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano and associate professor at the Instituto de Empresa (IE). With a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master’s degree in Arab Studies and Political Science from Georgetown University in Washington DC, he was a Fulbright Commission fellowship recipient. He received part of his training at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been an educator at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and the Universities of Georgetown, Saint Louis, San Pablo-CEU and Barcelona. He has worked at the United Nations (New York) and Human Rights Watch (Washington DC). He is a regular commentator in the Spanish and foreign media. He speaks Spanish, Arabic, English and French. Fields of research: international relations, political Islam and processes of transition towards democracy in the Arab world, a region where he has resided for over 16 years.

He directs the Energy and Climate Program of the Elcano Royal Institute and is a professor of Economic Policy in the Department of Applied Economics at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). With a PhD in Economics and Business Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he has been a visiting researcher at Florida State University and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and is an associate researcher for the Spanish International Relations Center at the Fundación Ortega y Gasset. He regularly teaches graduate courses about the geopolitics of energy and political economics in North Africa at numerous Spanish and foreign universities. He has participated in several domestic and foreign research projects, most notably the Seventh EU Framework Program, and several European Commission FEMISE Euro-Mediterranean projects, as well as having earned the research award bestowed by the Economic and Social Council. His working languages, in addition to Spanish, are French and English. Fields of research: international energy issues such as the external dimension of Spanish and European energy policy, the geopolitics and geo-economics of energy, energy security, renewable energies and the interaction of energy resources with the economic development of producer countries, especially in North Africa and Latin America.

A professor of Legal History and Institutions at the University of Cordoba.

Director of the UNESCO Chair for Conflict Resolution. PhD in Law from the University of Cordoba and Diploma of Higher Studies on Conflict Resolution. Amongst the most outstanding achievements in his career are the publication of four monographs and over ten books in which he coordinated contributions by specialists from a very wide range of fields, though with a special emphasis on the study of historical law. Political thought and its historical and institutional influences, along with the regulation of social ideology through education, have been his latest research concerns, as a result of which some of he has produced some of his latest work.