Andrés Ibáñez was born in Madrid in 1961. He studied music with the intention of becoming a composer until he abandoned the conservatoire and began to play jazz. He took French Studies at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, and after travelling to India, he moved to New York in 1989, and wrote several plays which premiered Off Off Broadway. Here he finished his first novel “La Música del Mundo”, which was published by Seix Barral in 1995 and won him the RNE Premio Ojo Crítico de Narrativa award.
A Doctor Civil Engineer from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (UPM, 1976). He was a teacher of Railways at the UPM and in the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia during the seventies, and has been a professor of Transport Infrastructures at the UPC since 1983. He has developed his research activity and railroad planning activity in RENFE (1973-1985), Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1986-2005), International Union of Railways (1976-2005) and has been the manager of the Centre for Transport Research (CENIT) since its foundation in 2000.
B.Sc. from the University of Navarra, Master in Business Administration from the University of Deusto and Diploma in International Business Management from INSEAD France. He developed his career in several international companies in the agro-food sector in different executives positions both in Spain and abroad.
Seeking a new career guidance, he studied Stress Reduction.
Currently he combines corporate training with research in Stress Reduction.
Andrés Pérez Ortega, graduate in Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with an MBA from ICADE, is an expert in product development.
He has been in charge of international transactions for such companies as REPSOL, Quaker Oats and Carrefour and has been involved in organising the opening of new markets and businesses in Europe and Latin America.
Andrés Trapiello was born in Manzaneda de Torío, León, in 1953. A prolific and highly prestigious author, among his novels are El buque fantasma (Plaza & Janés International Novel Prize, 1993), La malandanza, Días y noches, as well as the first ten volumes of his diaries, collected as Salón de pasos perdidos. Among his essay collections are Clásicos de traje gris, Las vidas de Miguel de Cervantes, Las armas y las letras, Literatura y guerra civil 1936- 1939 (First Don Juan de Borbón Prize, 1995) and La noche de los Cuatro Caminos.