Pedro Schwartz (pedro@pedroschwartz.com)
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Dr. Schwartz is Chairman of the Competition Tribunal of the Madrid Autonomous Community. He is professor Extraordinary in the Department of Economics of the University San Pablo CEU in Madrid, where he teaches the History of Economic Thought, and directs the Centre for Political Economy and Regulation. He also directs the Political Economy Department in the Faculty of Political Science at the same University. He is secretary of the Think Tank Civismo and member of its Foundation Pro Libertate.
Other activities include being a member of the Board of Directors of CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies, Burssels), a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society, a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Liberales Institut Zurich; and in the US, and Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute.
In September 1990, H.M. Queen Elisabeth II made him an honorary Officer of the British Empire. In February 2003, he was elected to the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain, and in the same year was awarded the Rey Jaime I Prize for contributions to economics in Spain. In February 2005 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain.
He writes a weekly column in Expansion of Madrid and a monthly article in ABC of Madrid. He often speaks on the Spanish financial and corporate scene for the BBC and has contributed to the Financial Times. He is a frequent lecturer on economics and on company strategy.
Other activities include being a member of the Board of CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels), a member of the Mont Pèlerin Society; and in the US, an Adjunct Scholar of the Cato Institute. Since 2006 he is a member of the external experts panel of the European Parliament in the Field of Monetary and Economic Policy.
In September 1990, H.M.Queen Elisabeth II made him an Honorary Officer of the British Empire. In February 2003, he was elected to the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain, and in that same year was awarded the Rey Jaime I Prize for contributions to economics in Spain.
He has just published the second edition of his book En busca de Montesquieu, La democracia en peligro (Ediciones Encuentro, Madrid) which is soon to be published in English. The City of Madrid has awarded him the 2008 Jose Ortega y Gasset Prize for this book.
He is a native Spanish speaker, is fluent in English, French and Italian and speaks Portuguese.
Summary of his professional experience
In the academic field, Dr. Pedro Schwartz worked at the Research Department of the Bank of Spain for ten years. Before holding a chair at Universidad San Pablo CEU, he was professor at the Economics Faculties of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1970-1992) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1992-2003). He also taught at the Madrid Campus of St. Louis University for fourteen years on the History of Economic Thought, the History of Political Thought, the History of Spain in the 20th c., and the History and Theory of Central Banking.
In the field of politics founded the Unión Liberal Party and was a member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies from 1982 to 1986, in the Conservative interest.
In the field of business, after leaving politics, he was chief economist at the Stock Exchange brokers Iberagentes and then for seven years chairman of the fund managers Fincorp Gestión.
In the field of communications and information technologies he was president of Fundesco (the Telefonica Foundation), and the IT companies Servicom SA, and Interdomain SA. Then for five years he was executive consultant at the IT firm DMR Consulting. He was Chairman the Board of the regulated electronic Market for Treasury Securities MTS Spain and Executive President of BlueLine SL, a strategy consultancy and Executive President of BlueLine S.L. a strategy consultancy. In november 2009 he has given up his directorship of Cibeles of the Caja Madrid Group and of Caggemini Spain.
Along the years he has set up or worked for a number of economic think tanks: Instituto de Economía de Mercado, Instituto de Estudios de Libre Comercio, and still going strong the Centre for Political Economy and Regulation at Universidad San Pablo CEU and Civismo.
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