The aim of the new Workshop in Global Leadership, organised by the Rafael del Pino Foundation and directed by Laura Díaz Anadón, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, is to offer its participants, all of them Spanish business and institutional leaders working in the global arena, the opportunity to update their knowledge on the most relevant issues in the field of international leadership.
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The Workshop in Global Leadership, organised by the Rafael del Pino Foundation in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, is led by Laura Díaz Anadón, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she is also Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Fellow of St John's College, Trustee of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd and of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI). Professor Díaz Anadón is also affiliated with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
The aim of this programme is to offer its participants, all of whom are Spanish business and institutional leaders working on the global stage, the opportunity to update their knowledge on the most relevant issues in the field of international leadership.
The 202nd edition will take place at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, and will consist of 8 sessions of 90 minutes each, taught in English, live, by Cambridge University lecturers and researchers of wide experience and recognised prestige, all of them with relevant publications in their fields of specialisation.
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Academic Management
Laura Díaz AnadonProf. Laura Diaz Anadon holds the Chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she is also Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), Fellow of St. John's College, Member of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd, and Board Member of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI). She is also a long-standing Affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
Prof. Diaz Anadon is a Lead Author in the ongoing 7th Assessment Report (AR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), contributing to Working Group III on Climate Change Mitigation-a role she also held during the 6th Assessment Report. In March 2026, she began her second term on the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) and was elected shortly after as Vice-Chair, having been a founding member and twice elected Vice-Chair during her first term. That same month, UK Ministers and the Devolved Governments appointed her to the UK Committee of Climate Change (CCC). She has previously served on the Economics of Decarbonization Advisory Group for the UK Treasury's Net Zero Review and on the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate.
Prof. Diaz Anadon joined Cambridge's Department of Land Economy in September 2017, having spent the preceding year as a faculty member in the University's Department of Politics and International Studies. She previously served as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2013 to 2016, where she also held posts including Associate Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy (STPP) programme, Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, and Member of the Board of the Belfer Center. She returned to Harvard as a Visiting Scholar in 2021-2022.
She has received numerous awards and recognition for her research, including being awarded the XVII Fundacion Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University, and a Senior Fellowship from the JM Keynes Fellowship Fund for her work on financial economics. She has also given numerous international invited seminars, plenary talks and keynotes.
In addition to her various formal policy and technology commercialization advisory roles, Prof. Diaz Anadon has engaged with policymakers in the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Spain among others, and contributed to the UN Global Sustainable Development report and the Global Energy Assessment and various efforts at the International Energy Agency. She has also contributed evidence to US Congress and the UK Parliament. She has also worked as a consultant for various organizations (i.e., Climate Strategies on a World Bank project, UNFCCC, and OECD). Before starting her academic career, Prof. Diaz Anadon carried out process engineering research projects at DuPont and Bayer Pharmaceuticals, collaborated with Johnson Matthey Catalysts, and worked as a financial consultant at Oliver Wyman for banks on credit risk models for financing technology projects.
Prof Diaz Anadon holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester. During her undergraduate degree she also studied at the University of Stuttgart.
Academic Coordination
Carlota Taboada
Director of Research Programmes, Virtual Campus and International Training Programmes at the Rafael del Pino Foundation.
Teaching Team
Roberto Stefan FoaRoberto is Co-Founder of the Centre for the Future of Democracy at the University of Cambridge and an elected Executive Committee member of the World Values Survey. His research examines public opinion, governance, and the use of novel data sources to address public policy challenges. He is also interested in political methodology, including comparative survey work, index construction and design, geospatial analysis, data harmonisation, and the synthesis of data from search and social media with classical survey-based approaches. His academic work has been published in a wide range of top-tier journals and cited in publications including The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic.
He graduated from the University of Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (BA) and completed his Ph.D. at the Harvard University Department of Government. He has previously served as a Peter Martin Fellow at the Financial Times, worked for the World Bank as designer of the Indices of Social Development, served as founding president of the Washington European Society, and acted as Principal Investigator of the World Values Survey in Rwanda (2007), Uzbekistan (2012), Indonesia (2017), and Bangladesh (2018).
Mette Eilstrup- SangiovanniDr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni is Lecturer in International Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute (2001). Prior to taking up her post at Cambridge University, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies (2000-02). Dr Eilstrup-Sangiovanni is Director of the Cambridge MPhil in International Relations.
Dr. Eilstrup-Sangiovanni's main research interests are in the areas of International Organization, International Relations Theory and International Security. She is particularly interested in international institutional design. In recent research projects she has studied the design and dynamics of trans governmental security networks, the organizational structure of terrorist and criminal networks, as well as the institutional implications of declining American hegemony. Her other research interests include regional integration, the EU, European security and defense policy, balance-of-power and alliance theory, and transnational environmental advocacy.
Helen ThompsonHelen is Professor of Political Economy. She has been at Cambridge since 1994. Her current research concentrates on the political economy of energy and the long history of the democratic, economic, and geopolitical disruptions of the twenty-first century. She is a regular panellist on Talking Politics and a columnist for the New Statesman.
- Jason Sharman
Jason Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, and his undergraduate degree in history and politics from the University of Western Australia.
Previously, Sharman worked at American University in Bulgaria, the University of Sydney and Griffith University, and has spent shorter periods as a visitor at St Petersburg State University, Columbia University and the London School of Economics.
Sharman's research is divided into two main streams. The first is focused on the global regulation of money laundering, corruption and tax havens. The second deals with the international relations of the early modern world and the historical evolution of the international system.
Aside from his academic research, Sharman has worked as a consultant with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Financial Action Task Force, Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering and with a variety of groups in the private sector.
- Carsten Schultz
Carsten is Associate Professor in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Latin America's relationships with and contributions to international order. It has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as American Political Science Review, International Organization, European Journal of International Relations, and International Studies Quarterly, among others.
- William H. Janeway
William joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building the information technology investment practice: leading investments included BEA Systems and VERITAS Software. Previously, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of O'Reilly Media.
Dr. Janeway is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. He is founder of the Janeway Institute for Economics and of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) at the University of Cambridge. He was cofounder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
He is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators, and the State (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018).
He received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.
Diane CoyleDame Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Diane co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity. Her latest book is ‘Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be’, exploring the challenges for economics particularly in the context of digital transformation. Her current research focuses on productivity and on economic measurement: what does it mean for economic policy to make the world ‘better’, and how would we know if it succeeds?
Diane is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, and an expert adviser to the National Infrastructure Commission. She has served in public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the Natural Capital Committee. Diane was Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester until March 2018 and was awarded a DBE for her contribution to economic policy in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours.
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