Meeting of the jury for the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2026 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences will meet this coming 25th and 26th May in Oviedo. This is the fifth of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 46th year. A total of 36 candidatures encompassing 12 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 Social Sciences is to be granted to “creative and/or research work in the field of anthropology, demography, economics, ethics, geography, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology or teaching, as well as in the disciplines corresponding to each of these fields”.

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.

The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Monday 25th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am, after the group photograph. 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 Tuesday 26th, in the “Salón Covadonga” of the same Hotel (Ground Floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.
 

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

• Emilio Lamo de Espinosa Michels de Champourcin (presidente)
• Jaime Pérez Renovales (secretario)
• Marta Elvira Rojo
• Jorge Freire Gutiérrez
• Teresa Freixes Sanjuán
• Javier Garciadiego Dantán
• Pablo Hernández de Cos
• Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez
• Ricardo Martí Fluxá
• Manuel Menéndez Menéndez
• Sir Robin Niblett
• Leandro Prados de la Escosura
• María Dolores Puga González
• Valerio Rocco Lozano
• Fernando Vallespín Oña
• Astrid Wagner