Patronage and staff

José Mª Tomás y Tío

President

Magistrate

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Magistrate, with postings in Ibiza, San Sebastián, Elche and Valencia (1977-1990).
Dean of the Judges of Valencia (1990-1998)
President of the Second Section of the Provincial Court (2000-2020)
Civil Registrar (2020-2021)
Member of GEMME (Group of Magistrates Experts in Mediation)
Lecturer in Criminal Law at the University of Valencia (1985-1990)
Director of the School of Legal Practice of the ICAV (1999-2008)
President of the International Tribunal for the Implementation of Restorative Justice in El Salvador (since 2009)

Ana María Fuertes

Ana Mª Fuertes Eugenio

Director

Professor of Applied Economics Jaume I

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Ana María Fuertes Eugenio
Professor of Applied Economics, she has been Dean of the Faculty of Law and Economics and Vice-Rector of International Relations and Cooperation at the UJI. She has been director of the Master's Degree in Management and Promotion of Local Development and the Master's Degree in Development Cooperation. She has managed as principal investigator ten AECI and GV International Cooperation Programmes. She has been director of FxJ since 2018.

María José Marco Rubio

Vice-President

Lawyer

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- Lawyer
- Member of CMICAV
- Professional career linked to the fields of social economy, entrepreneurship and equal opportunities.
- Head of the legal department
- Training and Employment Officer (IVD)
- European Programme Manager
- Member of the European network "Femmes vers l'Emploi".

Mónica Escamilla Condés

Secretary

Lawyer

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Secretary

Lawyer

Salvador Alborch Domínguez

President of the Legal Commission

Notary

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Notary City of Valencia

Ana Isabel Móner Romero

Chair of the Equality Commission

Lawyer 

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Lawyer AVACU

Martina Menguzzato Boulard

Chairwoman of the Economic Commission

Professor of Business Management at UV

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  • Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Valencia.
  • Director of the "Business Management" department at the University of Valencia. (1986-1990 and 1996-2000)
  • Director of the Doctoral Program in “Business Management” at the University of Valencia (1993-2009)
  • President of ACEDE – Scientific Association of Economics and Business Management – (2008-2010) of which she is a member of the Council of Honor.
  • Director/Co-director of the UV Masters programs:
    – “International Executive MBA” (1998-2006) in collaboration with Anglia University and sponsored by Ford;
    – “Master in Family Business Management” (2000-2003) in collaboration with the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and IVEFA;
    – “MBA. Business Management and Administration” (2003-2009) in collaboration with the Valencia Chamber of Commerce.

Rafael Fernández-Delgado Cerdá

Chairman of the Projects Committee

Full Professor of Pediatrics UV

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Paediatrician. Head of Paediatric Oncohematology Section. Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia. Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Valencia.

Gemma Fajardo García

Gemma Fajardo García

Full Professor of Law, UV

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Doctor of Law
Lecturer in Commercial Law. University of Valencia
Researcher at the International Centre for Research on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy (CIRIEC).

Vicente Cuñat Edo

Professor of Commercial Law, University of Valencia

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Professor of Commercial Law.
Professor Emeritus of UV.
He has been a member of the Legal Consultiu Council of the Valencian Community.

Juan Rafael Alegre López

Juan Molpeceres Pastor

Lawyer and Criminologist

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Practicing lawyer and criminologist since 1994, he specializes in criminal law and juvenile law. He is a professor on the Master's Degree in Law, legal advisor to Valencia City Council on its juvenile court program, and president of the Casal de la Pau, a public entity declared a public utility.

Luis Miguel Romero 

 Lawyer

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Lawyer. Dean of the Valencia Bar Association; President of the Valencian Council of Bar Associations; Vice-President of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers; President of the Federation of Bar Associations of Europe and North Africa; Director of the Mutualidad Abogacía; President and Honorary Perpetual President of the Union of Professional Associations of the Valencian Community and Valencia; President of the Royal Valencian Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation; corresponding member of the Academies of Granada, Barcelona, Córdoba (Argentina) and Mexico; member of the Secretariat of the Ibero-American Union of Bar Associations; Presidency Council of the International Union of Lawyers. Honorary Consul of Ukraine in the Community of Valencia. Main distinctions: Grand Cross of Merit of the Spanish Bar; Grand Cross of Merit of the Valencia Bar; 1st Distinguished Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort; Gold Button of the Mutualidad de la Abogacía; Cross of Honour of the Order of San Miguel (Ukraine); Medal of Honour of the Taras Sevchenko National University of Kiev.

Manuela Gómez 

Graduate in Economics and Business Administration, University of Valencia

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Program for Management Development, ESADE Business School; Master in International Trade Management, ESIC Business & Marketing School. Expert in institutional relations, company internationalisation and entrepreneurship, with more than 20 years of experience leading international projects and advising companies in the internationalisation process. Expert in European financing, specialist in organising trade missions. Extensive experience in coordinating activities with the media and in managing multidisciplinary teams aimed at achieving objectives.

She currently directs the European and International Projects Office of the Universitat Jaume I-Empresa Foundation (FUE-UJI), and is a member of the Networking Directives Association (NDCS). She has been director of the business information department in the area of foreign trade of the Castellón Chamber of Commerce and of the Startup Europe Awards promoted by the European Commission with the aim of recognising the work of the most innovative Startups in Europe. Member of the working group "Natural Capital" RVO.nl; she has participated in the European programme for the mobility of climate change experts, Pioneers of EIT Climate-KIC. She has a high level of Spanish, English and Romanian.

Alejandro Mañes Martínez

Graduate in Economics and Law from the Universitat de València.

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Doctorate courses on: Local Treasuries. Control of Public Expenditure. Non-Competitive Forms of the Market and Simple and Extended Reproduction Schemes. Administrative Problems of Spanish Exports.

Diploma in Advanced Studies. Applied Economics. University of Valencia.

Postgraduate scholarship Deyfor Foundation.

Annual Course on the European Communities, Diplomatic School.

European training seminar, College of Europe in Bruges.

IESE Business Management Course.

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1971 and 1972, business organisation office, Antonio Ivars Moreno, Valencia.

From 1972 to 1984, Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Valencia. Since 1974 as Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary.

Technical Secretary in 1984 and 1985 of the Institute of Small and Medium Industry (Impiva) of the Generalitat Valenciana.

General Manager of the Valencia International Trade Fair from 1985 to 1996.

Manager of the General Foundation of the University of Valencia from 1997 to 2001, commemoration of the V Centenary, Cinc Segles.

Since 2001 independent director of various private companies. Member of the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Valencia from 02.11.04 to 25.10.10 and of the Territorial Board of Mapfre from 27. 04. 05 until the integration of the Board at state level from 2014.

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He has given courses and participated in the elaboration of several research works on the European Union and different sectors of the Valencian economy.

Regular contributor to different media such as El País CV, Levante, El Boletín de Empresas, Valencia plaza and Economía 3. He has published several books on economic and social issues. Member of several cultural and social organisations.

Regina Laguna

Professor, lawyer and journalist

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Teacher, lawyer and journalist. As a lecturer at the Universitat de València, I give classes of
Legal Institutions of the European Union. Between 2015 and 2016, I was "Directora General de Relacions
amb la Unió Europea i L'Estat" and Delegate in Brussels for the Generalitat Valenciana.

Antonio Lopez-Pena Duble

Human Resources Director

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Graduate in Law from the University of Valencia
Specialisation in Labour Law
EXPERIENCE
Since 1970, I have developed my professional life in EL CORTE INGLÉS, S.A.
Initially I joined the Madrid headquarters, from where I was transferred to Barcelona and
later to Valencia, in order to collaborate in the inauguration of the Valencia Shopping Centre.
Pintor Sorolla, in 1971.
Since then, I have been working as the company's Chief of Staff, and I have been working as the company's
This meant that, in 1982, as Head of Personnel, he assisted with the inauguration of the
New Centre.
From 1987 to 1998 I was appointed Regional Director of Human Resources for the
Valencian Community, during which time I undertook the staffing for the
inauguration of the Ademuz Shopping Centre (Hipercor), of the Centro Comercial de la
Avenida de Francia, as well as the shopping centre that opened in Castellón.
It was also during this time that I managed the integration of Galerías Preciados after its acquisition.
by El Corte Inglés as well as Mark & Spencer.
Subsequently, I was appointed as General Manager of the Pintor de Pintor Shopping Centres.
Sorolla, 26 - Colon, 27 y Colon 1, with a staff of approximately 2000.
partners.

Rebeca Lino

Rebeca Lino

Vice-Dean of the ICAV

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Practising lawyer since February 2002 specialising in immigration law and currently Vice-Dean of the ICAV since January 2023.

José Antonio Nuño de la Rosa Amores

Prosecutor of the TSJCV

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PROFESSIONAL DATA

  •  He joined the Prosecutor's Office on 17 December 1987.
  •  On 9 January 1988, he took up his post as Public Prosecutor at the Provincial Court of Cordoba.
  •  On 12 February 1990, he took up his post as Public Prosecutor at the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
  •  By Royal Decree 1361/91 of 6 September, he was promoted by H.M. King Juan Carlos I to the rank of Public Prosecutor, a post he has held since then at the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community and currently at the Provincial Public Prosecutor's Office of Valencia.
  •  He has been a member of the following sections of the Valencia Public Prosecutor's Office: Economic Crimes, Aliens, Environment and has been coordinator of the Forest Fires Section.
  • He is currently Coordinator-Visitor of the Criminal Section of the Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Valencia.

 

Rebeca Lino

Antonio Paños

Economist

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Antonio Paños is an economist with more than 30 years of experience in the banking sector and another 12 years of consultancy focused on financial and organisational issues.

Concerned with influencing the nearest square centimetre to make the world a better place and trying to add value to what he is involved in.

COMMISSIONS

Government Commission
President: Maria Jose Marco Rubio

Projects Commission
Chair: Rafael Fernández-Delgado Cerdá

Equality Commission
President: Ana Isabel Moner Romero

Economic Commission
Chairwoman: Martina Menguzzato Boulard

Legal Commission
President: Salvador Alborch Domínguez

TECHNICAL TEAM

Director of Projects and Management
Aitana Gisbert
Raquel Ferrando Sellers

Project Technique
Rosana Gómez

Administration
Pilar Durán Cuellar

Responsible for communication
Joanna Gimenez i Garcia

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Alejandro Mollá Descals, Professor of Marketing, UV
Santiago Rincón Velázquez, Forensic Doctor
Aurelio Martínez Esteve, Professor of Applied Economics, UV
Manuel Ferrer Beltrán, Doctor in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the UV
Jorge Cardona Llorens, International Public Professor, UV
Manuela Carmena Castrillo, Magistrada
Izabel Rigo Portocarrero. University Professor of International Law
María Iborra Juan, Lecturer in Business Management
Adolfo Porcar Rodilla, Lawyer

 

PATRONS OF HONOUR

His Excellency Mr. Adolfo Suárez. Former President of the Spanish Government.
I Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (1995)
Architect of Spain's peaceful transition

Water Court of the Vega de Valencia. Designated Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
II Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (1998)
Medieval model of community justice in force

Association of Victims of Terrorism. Entity declared to be of Public Utility.
III Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2001)
Offering forgiveness from suffering

Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niños y Niñas Desaparecidos de El Salvador.
IV Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Prize (2004)
In search of truth and justice

Mr Muhammad Yunus. Nobel Peace Prize 2006, Prince of Asturias Award 1998.
V Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2006)
The banker to the poor

Ms. Bogaletch Gebre. King Baudouin Africa Development Prize 2013.
VI Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2007)
Fighter against female mutilation

Father Vicente Berenguer. In recognition of his more than 40 years of dedication to educational development in Mozambique.
VII Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2008)
Equal training for all

Doctor D. Pedro Cavadas. Valencian International University Award.
VIII Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2009)
Universal restorative physician

Sisters of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Valencian International University Award.
IX Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2010)
Poor with the poorest

Jesuit Refugee Service. Dedicated to helping all those who have been driven from their homes by conflict, humanitarian disasters or human rights violations.
X Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2011)
Displaced and excluded from their land

MAIDES Foundation. For its work with the mentally ill and AIDS patients. 
XI Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2012)
Priority for the mentally handicapped

Father Richard Frechette. Founder and Alma Mater of "Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos".
XII Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2013)
Vital commitment from medicine and faith

Dr. Julian Carlos Ríos Martín. For his personal commitment to the defence of prisoners' rights and the improvement of penitentiary laws.
XIII Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2014)
Advocate for the rights of the unaccompanied minors

Omar Islam Ali. For the regeneration and boosting of the population of Lamu, a small Kenyan island, and support for the education of the community in this region.
XIV Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2017)
Educating from music and the environment in your country

José Palazón Osma and María Teresa Echarte Mellado. Association for Children's Rights. For their work in the protection of the rights of migrant minors.
XV Fundación por la Justicia-Fundación Bancaja Award (2018)
Reception of minors at the border

Pepe Mujica Cordano. For his vital trajectory of personal and institutional commitment to Human Rights and Justice.
I Human Rights Prize, awarded by FxJ and the CVCA (2019)
Honesty in public and private life