Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord will meet this coming 3rd and 4th June in Oviedo. This is the sixth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 32 candidatures encompassing 23 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel.

As stated in the Foundation’s Regulations, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord is to be aimed at “recognizing the work of defending and advancing human rights, as well as of promoting and protecting peace, freedom, solidarity, world heritage and, in general, the progress of humanity.”

Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.

As usual, the Jury for the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord will be composed largely of members of the Boards of Trustees of the Foundation.

Deliberations will commence at 5:00pm on Tuesday, 3rd June, in the hotel’s Salón Covadonga (Chapel), immediately after the taking of the official photo. The Jury’s decision will be made public at 12 noon the following day, Wednesday, in the same room. Following this, the members of the Jury may be interviewed.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

• Adrián Barbón Rodríguez (chair)
• Pedro de Silva Cienfuegos-Jovellanos (acting secretary)
• Esther Alcocer Koplowitz
• Ernesto Antolin Arribas
• Maite Arango García-Urtiaga
• Juan José Cano Ferrer
• Alfredo Canteli Fernández
• Juan Cofiño González
• Sol Daurella Comadrán
• Ignacio Eyriès García de Vinuesa
• Ana I. Fernández Álvarez
• Enrique Fernández Rodríguez
• Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz
• José Galíndez Zubiría
• Ignacio Garralda Ruiz de Velasco
• Jaime Gorbeña Yllera
• Eduardo Hochschild Beeck
• Alicia Koplowitz Romero de Juséu
• Adolfo Menéndez Menéndez
• Olvido Moraleda Linares
• Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo
• Mercedes Oblanca Rojo
• José Oliu i Creus
• María del Pino Calvo-Sotelo
• Helena Revoredo de Gut
• Francisco Riberas Mera
• Matías Rodríguez Inciarte
• Juan Sánchez-Calero Guilarte
• Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez
• Gonzalo Urquijo Fernández de Araoz
• Maarten Wetselaar
• Ignacio Ybarra Aznar