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Free Enterprise Forum

The Rafael del Pino Foundation organises meetings for small groups of experts to discuss current issues of importance. These events are known as the Free Enterprise Forum. To date there have been 53 meetings of the Forum, thirteen of them in 2008.

22 January 2008

Carlos Ocaña y Pérez de Tudela
State Secretary for Finance and Budgets

6 February 2008

Juan Verde Suárez
General Manager, Public Administration Strategy Solutions

28 February 2008

Francisco Gil
Chairman, Telefónica México

10 April 2008

Ana Patricia Botín
Executive Chairwoman, Banesto

23 April 2008

David B. Audretsch
Director of the Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University

5 June 2008

William F. Sharpe
Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics

19 June 2008

Eric Maskin
Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

26 June 2008

Ján Figel`
European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

16 October 2008

John Bruton
Prime Minister (Taoiseach) of the Republic of Ireland (1994-1997)

17 November 2008

Thomas C. Schelling
Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics

20 November 2008

Moisés Naím
Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Policy magazine and Chairman of the G-50

25 November 2008

Mario Molina
Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

15 December 2008

Nicholas Stern
Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment