TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP
Book presentations
Un Camino de Horizonte. Molledo-Pesquera. Último eslabón en las comunicaciones con la Meseta. [A Road to the Horizon. Molledo-Pesquera. The last link in communications with the Meseta]. This book was presented on 12 March 2008 by Francisco Javier Criado Ballesteros, Director General for Roads at the Spanish Ministry of Infrastructure and Development; Santiago Pérez-Fadón, Technical Director at Ferrovial- Agromán, and the architect and cartoonist José María Pérez González “Peridis”. Joaquín Ayuso, CEO of the Ferrovial Group, also attended. The book is published by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and Ferrovial, and presents an account of the major engineering work involved in the last section of the Meseta Highway linking Cantabria with Castile & León. It describes in particular detail the design, development and construction of the Montabliz Viaduct by Ferrovial, which carries the Meseta Highway across the River Bisueña valley in the province of Cantabria.
Familia, Escuela y Sociedad. Responsabilidades compartidas en la educación. [Family, School and Society. Shared responsibilities in education.] On 15 April 2008, the Vice Chancellor of Rey Juan Carlos University, professor Pedro González-Trevijano, presented this book containing the 5th Annual Report of the Fundación Acción Familiar. The book includes the reflections of a group of experts from different disciplines, consisting of Agustín Domingo Moratalla, M.ª Teresa López López, Elena Martín Rasines, Raquel-Amaya Martínez González and M.ª Angustias Roldán Franco, on the role of the family in the educational process, with special reference to the agents that participate in it: family, school and society. The Report is sponsored by the Rafael del Pino Foundation.
Remedios y sanciones en el derecho de la competencia. [Remedies and penalties in Competition Law]. This book, published in the Foundation’s Law Collection, was presented at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 17 September 2008. Coordinated by Santiago Martínez Lage and Amadeo Petitbò, it includes the work done during the 4th Seminar on Competition Law and Economics. The presentation was chaired by Carles Esteva-Mosso, the Director for Policy and Strategy at the European Commission Competition Directorate General.
La actividad emprendedora. Empresas y empresarios en España, 1997-2006. [Entrepreneurial activities. Businesses and Entrepreneurs in Spain, 1997-2006]. Presented at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 1 December 2008, this book is the result of the Second Report on entrepreneurial activities in Spain carried out with the sponsorship of the Foundation by researchers Antonio García Tabuenca, José Luis Crespo Espert and Federico Pablo Martí (Alcalá de Henares University). The presentation was chaired by Javier Gómez Navarro, the Chairman of the Spanish Chambers of Commerce Higher Council. Antonio García Tabuenca attended on behalf of the authors.
El milagro económico chino: Mito y Realidad. [The Economic Miracle of China: Myth and Reality] This book by Professor Jacinto Soler Matutes, published in the Foundation’s Economics & Business Collection, was presented at the Rafael del Pino Foundation on 16 December 2008 and at the Círculo de Economía in Barcelona on 17 December 2008. At the Rafael del Pino Foundation the presentation was chaired by Amadeo Jensana, Director of Economic Programmes and Cooperation at Casa Asia, and the author Professor Soler. In Barcelona, as well as the author, those attending included the Foundation Director, Amadeo Petitbò, and Alfredo Pastor, Professor of Economics at IESE Business School.
At the end of both presentations, Professor Mixin Pei, who is Senior Associate at the China Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most highly esteemed sinologists in the world, gave a talk entitled: “China after the Olympic Games: challenges for the future of an economic miracle without democracy”. In his talks he said that “the Chinese government, with millions of labourers unemployed and forced to return to villages in the country, must change its strategy of investing in infrastructures and allocate those resources to social programmes to calm the anxiety there is among the country’s 1,350 million inhabitants“.