Meeting of the jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation will meet this coming 17th and 18th June in Oviedo. This is the last of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 45th year. A total of 31 candidatures encompassing 13 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at Barceló Oviedo Cervantes 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 International Cooperation is to be granted to “recognizing individual or collective work, in cooperation with another or others, to develop and promote public health, universal education, the protection and defence of the environment, as well as the economic, cultural and social advancement of all peoples.”

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.

On the first day of the meeting at 11:00am on Tuesday 17th, there will be a family photo of the jury members in the hotel’s “Salón Regenta”, followed by a meeting with the media, immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.

The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 18th, in the “Salón Regenta”, following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.

This is the last of the eight Princess of Asturias Awards to be bestowed in what is now their 45th year. Previously, the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities was granted to Korean-born German philosopher and essayist Byung-Chul Han, the Award for Literature to Spanish writer Eduardo Mendoza, the Award for Social Sciences to American sociologist and demographer Douglas Massey, the Award for the Arts to Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, the Award for Sports to American tennis player Serena Williams, the Award for Concord to the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico and the Award for Technical and Scientific Research to American geneticist Mary-Claire King.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

• Gustavo Suárez-Pertierra (chair)
• Gloria Fernández-Lomana García (acting secretary)
• Gabriela Cañas Pita de La Vega
• Miguel Carballeda Piñeiro
• Laura Díaz Anadón
• Pilar García Ceballos-Zúñiga
• Rodrigo García González
• Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal
• Charo Izquierdo Martínez
• Mònica Margarit Ribalta
• Íñigo Méndez de Vigo y Montojo, Baron of Claret
• Pol Morillas i Bassedas
• Juan Carlos del Olmo Castillejos
• Isaac Querub Caro
• Ignacio Villaverde Menéndez