Meeting of the jury for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord will meet this coming 16th and 17th June in Oviedo. This is the last of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 46th year. A total of 36 candidatures from 16 nationalities have been nominated 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 granted at “recognizing the work of defending and advancing respect for human dignity and rights, as well as 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, 16th 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.

This is the last of the eight Princess of Asturias Awards to be bestowed in what is now their forty-sixth year. Previously, the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts was granted to American singer and writer Patti Smith; the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities went to the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli; the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research was conferred on British chemists David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian and French biophysicist Pascal Mayer; the Princess of Asturias for International Cooperation went to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norway); the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences was bestowed on British historian, journalist and essayist Timothy Garton Ash; and the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports went to Argentinian footballer Leo Messi; and the Princess of Asturias for Literature was granted to Julian Barnes.
 

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, marquesa de Casa Peñalver
• Jaime Alfonsín Alfonso, marqués de Alfonsín 
• Fernando de Almansa Moreno-Barreda, vizconde de Castillo de Almansa 
• José Ramón Álvarez Rendueles 
• Ernesto Antolin Arribas
• José Antonio Fernández Carbajal 
• Maite Arango García-Urtiaga
• Joaquín Arenas de Bedmar 
• Antonio Brufau Niubó 
• Alfredo Canteli Fernández
• Juan Cofiño González
• Manuel Contreras Caro 
• Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez 
• Isidro Fainé Casas 
• Ana I. Fernández Álvarez
• Enrique Fernández Rodríguez 
• Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz
• José Galíndez Zubiría
• Omar González Pardo 
• Antonio Huertas Mejías 
• 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
• Matías Rodríguez Inciarte
• Juan Sánchez-Calero Guilarte 
• Antonio Suárez Gutiérrez 
• Javier Targhetta Roza 
• Gonzalo Urquijo Fernández de Araoz
• Ignacio Ybarra Aznar