This event, featuring Valerio Rocco and Sonia Mulero, who both lead institutions dedicated to creating cultural exchange and knowledge, will be about the transformational power of culture.

Valerio Rocco is a philosopher and writer and since November 2019 she has been at the head of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Madrid-based historical cultural institution, which now has the Casa Europa stamp. She also lectures on the History of Modern Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid and has been the Vice-deacon of Research at that university’s Faculty of Philosophy and Literature. Her areas of research include European Philosophy and the Geopolitical Philosophy of History. She has participated in a 2020 Horizon European research project entitled Failure, about the concept of failure and its reversibility.

Sonia Mulero is an expert in the management of not-for-profit organizations, in training volunteers and in technological entrepreneurship. As well as running the Banco de Sabadell Foundation, she is a member of the committees and boards of various foundations and associations in her area, including Eina (the Barcelona art and design centre), the Hemav Foundation (which trains young people to manage non-profit ventures), the Photographic Foundation (which runs the World Press Photo prize), the FECyT foundation, the Ashoka Venture Board, the Celera committee, and the Catalunya Cultura Foundation’s PIC committee. In 2019 she was listed in the top 100 Spanish Women Leaders.