More than 40 personalities from the academic, business, and legal worlds endorse the first degrees of the University of the Hesperides.
The Universidad de las Hespérides, has obtained the backing of more than forty personalities from the academic, business and legal worlds, both in Spain and other countries, including figures such as Nobel Prize winner Vernon Smith, founder of the branch of studies known as experimental economics or world chess champion Garri Kasparov.
Among the notable people who have endorsed this, there appear John B. Taylor (Stanford University's Mary and Robert Raymond Chair in Economics), Jerry L. Jordan (President of the Federal Reserve from 1992-2003), Peter J. Boettke (George Mason University economics and philosophy professor), Rajshree Agarwal (Rudolph P. Lamone Chair at the University of Maryland), Jesús Huerta de Soto (Economics Professor, King Juan Carlos University of Madrid), Bryan Caplan (Economics Professor, author of the theory of rational irrationality), Benjamin Powell (Economics Professor, Texas Tech University), and Leszek Balcerowicz (Poland's Vice President and former Finance Minister).
Ricardo Castillo 1-300x300 Universidad de las Hespérides, Personalities such as Ruth Richardson, considered the creator of the budgetary balance rules and one of the driving forces behind New Zealand's economic miracle as Finance Minister; Pilar Jiménez Álvarez, with great prominence in Chile's export profile explosion and a member of the team that achieved the commercial agreement between the Andean country and the European Union; Judge Ricardo Rojas, professor at the University of Buenos Aires as well; or Marco de Benito Llopis-Llombart, vocal of the Section on Procedural Law of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Spain.
Among the nearly half-dozen backers are Asra Nadeem (director of Draper University in Silicon Valley), John Chisholm (founder of Decisive Technology, now part of Google), Peter Klein (department head for Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation at Baylor University), Hugo Díaz (co-founder and CEO of Vital Interaction), Magatte Wade (director of the Africa Prosperity Center), Mónica de Zelaya (dean of the Economics Faculty at Francisco Marroquín University), Javier Sánchez Lamelas (founder and CEO of Topline Marketing Consulting Group in London), Roald Schoenmakers (CEO of Súmate, a leading company dedicated to Marketing digital).
ricardo.castillo1-300x300 Universidad de las Hespérides, Sergio Sánchez Jorge (Marketing Data Science & Advertising, Veepee Spain), Laura Sanz Fernández (Head of Online Media at Orange España), Claudio Mogilner Hendler (CEO of Internacional Web), José Alberto García Coria (Director of the Innovation Center in Villamayor Scientific Park), Zoilo Alemán (MICE Director Lopesan Hotel Management), Nicolás Villalobos Mestres (General Director of Cordial Hotel & Resorts), Miguel Villarroya Adell (General Director at Spring Hoteles), Blanca Lozano Cutanda (Professor of Administrative Law at the University of the Basque Country and Judge) ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights).
In addition, they integrate the list of endorsements obtained by Andrew P. Morriss, Dean of the Law School, Texas A&M University; Bobbi Herzberg, President of the Public Choice Society (2014-2016); Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas i Sayrol, Professor of Procedural Law at the University of Barcelona and former president of the European Federation of Associations of Lawyers; Massimiliano Neri, Director of Moody’s Analytics, Regional Leader for Europe, Middle East and Africa; Edmundo Rivera, Vice President, Risk Director and Chief Economist of the Latin American Bank of External Commerce; Catherine Marshall, Director of the AGORA Research Center at the University Cergy Paris; Santiago Fernández, Director of the Center for Political Studies and International Relations (EPRI) at Francisco Marroquín University; Daniel Hannan, responsible until Brexit for the International Relations area of the Conservative Party in the European Parliament; Javier El-Hage, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Santa Cruz University of Sierra; Javier Fernández-Samaniego, conciliator appointed by Spain on the CIADI Arbitrators and Mediators List of the World Bank; Juan José Lavilla Rubira, Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Complutense University of Madrid; and Rafael Fernández Valverde, Supreme Court Magistrate, as well as a member of the General Council of the Judiciary.