Javier Solana, President of ESADEgeo, and Della Bradshaw, Business Education Editor at the Financial Times, at CLADEA's 49th Annual Assembly

Javier Solana, President of ESADEgeo, and Della Bradshaw, Business Education Editor at the Financial Times, will be the featured speakers at the first plenary session of CLADEA’s 49th Annual Assembly, to be held at ESADE from 3 to 5 September 2014.

The leading network of Latin American business schools, CLADEA will bring together the deans of the main Latin American business schools on the ESADE Campus. The event, whose theme will be "Leading a global world: Latin America and Europe, new connections" and which is expected to draw more than 400 academics, will be inaugurated by Xavier Trías, Mayor of Barcelona, Roberto Solano, President of CLADEA, and Eugènia Bieto, Director General of ESADE.

The inauguration will be followed by a plenary session entitled "The challenges of a global world", to be moderated by Mr Solano and featuring Mr Solana and Ms Bradshaw.

The next day, the conference will feature Elsa del Castillo, President Elect of CLADEA, at the plenary session "Business connections between Latin America and Europe", to be moderated by Javier Santiso, vice president of ESADEgeo and a professor in ESADE’s Department of Economics. Speakers will include José Manuel Gonzalez, General Manager of BIMBO Ibérica, and Jaume Guardiola, CEO of Banco Sabadell.

For more information about the programme and registration: CLADEA 49th Annual Assembly