Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation
Thursday, 9 January 2014
19.30 h.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
The Fundación Tres Culturas and Editorial Debate invite you to the presentation of the book In search of answers: leadership in times of crisis (Editorial Debate) by Felipe González, which will take place at the Foundation's headquarters on 9 January 2014. González will present his vision of political, business and social leadership, drawing on his extensive experience, as well as reflecting on how to face the challenges of the present in order to lay the foundations for a better future.
On the occasion of the presentation of the book there will be a colloquium between Felipe González, Alfonso Alcántara, María Iglesias, José Antonio Rodríguez Salas y Daniel Romero-Abreu. Mabel Mata will moderate the event.
Felipe González Márquez (Seville, 1942)
Law graduate and labour lawyer, he joined the Socialist Youth in 1962. He was Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997.
Number one on the list of candidates for Congress for Madrid in the first elections in 1977, he was a member of parliament in all the legislatures until 2004. After the triumph of the PSOE in 1982, he was elected president of the government, a position he held until 1996.
In 1993 he was awarded the Charlemagne Prize, and is honorary doctorate The Catholic Universities of Louvain, Toulouse and Tel Aviv.
He was Vice-President of the Socialist International from 1978 to 1989. In 1996 he was appointed representative of the President of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and in 1998 European Union Special Representative for Yugoslavia. In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Reflection Group on the future of the European Union by the European Council.
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