SPEAKERS WIP

Speakers 2026

Jaume Collboni

Mayor of Barcelona

Salvador Illa

President of the Government of Catalonia

Arancha González Laya

President of World in Progress

Sergio Díaz-Granados

Executive President of CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

Édouard Philippe

Former Prime Minister of France and Mayor of Le Havre

Matteo Renzi

Senator and former Prime Minister of Italy

Pedro Sánchez

Prime Minister of Spain

José Manuel Albares

Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain

Gérald Darmanin

Minister of Justice of France

Josep Borrell

Former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs

Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Aloizio Mercadante

President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)

Núria Vilanova

President of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI)

Ángel Simón

President of Indra Group

Elma Saiz

Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration and Spokesperson for the Government of Spain

Fernando Medina Donoso

Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Spain

Javier Tebas

President of LALIGA

Andrés Velasco

Former Minister of Finance of Chile and Professor of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

Luis de Guindos

Former Vice-President of the European Central Bank

José Luis Escrivá Belmonte

Governor of the Bank of Spain

Emmanuel Moulin

Governor of the Banque de France

Arcadi España García

Ministro de Hacienda de España

Alícia Romero Llano

Minister for Economy and Finance of the Government of Catalonia

Claudio Orrego

Governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Jaume Duch Guillot

Minister for European Union and External Action of the Government of Catalonia

Rebeca Grynspan

Secretary-General of UN Trade and Development

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Writer

Nadia Calviño

President of the European Investment Bank

Roberto Gualtieri

Mayor of Rome

Dr. Josep Tabernero

Chair of the Scientific Council of the CaixaResearch Institute and Director of the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)

Marc Murtra

President of Telefónica

Juan Manuel Santos

Former president of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Historian and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés

Former President of the United Nations General Assembly

Gina Magnolia Riaño Barón

Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Social Security Organization (OISS)

Rafael Grossi

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Tim Gould

Chief Energy Economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA)

Agnès Pannier-Runacher

Member of the French National Assembly and former Minister for Energy Transition

Manuel Muñiz

Rector of IE University and Chair of IE New York College

Julissa Reynoso

Former United States Ambassador to Spain

General Óscar Naranjo

Former Vice-President of Colombia and former Director of the National Police

Past WIP Speakers