Honorary Committee
The Honorary President of the Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos is His Majesty King Felipe VI.
Members of the HONORARY COMMITTEE OF THE REAL INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS EUROPEOS, as of December 2021.
The Honorary Committee is made up of:
- RAFAEL ARIAS-SALGADO, former Minister of Public Works and of Territorial Administration under Adolfo Suárez
- DANIEL CALLEJA, Director-General of the European Commission Legal Service, former Director-General for Industry and SMEs, and for the Environment
- JOSÉ DE CARVAJAL, diplomat, former Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to Ireland and to Italy
- RICARDO DÍEZ-HOCHLEITNER, Ambassador to Morocco, former Secretary General of His Majesty the King's Household and former Ambassador to the OECD
- JAVIER ELORZA, former Secretary General for the European Communities, Ambassador successively to the European Union, France, Russia, India and Italy, Marquis of Nerva
- TRINIDAD JIMÉNEZ, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Health and Social Policy, former Secretary of State for Ibero-America, member of the Trilateral Commission
- ENEKO LANDÁBURU, former Director-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission and later for Enlargement and for External Relations
- Dr ABEL MATUTES, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, former European Commissioner, businessman and owner of the multinational hotel group Palladium
- MIGUEL ÁNGEL NAVARRO, former Secretary General for the European Union, former Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union and Ambassador successively to Poland, Japan and Singapore
- RAFAEL PASTOR RIDRUEJO, former Secretary General for the European Communities, former Ambassador to Argentina
- PEDRO SOLBES, former Vice-President of the European Commission, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance in the Governments of Felipe González and Rodríguez Zapatero
- Dr ISABEL TOCINO, former Minister of the Environment, board member of Banco Santander
- CAMILO VILLARINO, former Minister-Counsellor at the Embassy in Morocco, former Antici counsellor at the Permanent Representation to the European Union and Director-General and Chief of Staff to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs Alfonso Dastis, Josep Borrell and Arancha González Laya
- CARLOS WESTENDORP, former Secretary of State for the European Communities, former Ambassador to the European Communities, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador to the UN and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- JUAN ANTONIO YÁÑEZ-BARNUEVO, former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, twice Ambassador to the UN, former Ambassador on Special Mission for the International Criminal Court
Note. The following were members until their death:
- GAETANO ADINOLFI, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe for three consecutive terms, founder of EURIMAGES.
- CÉSAR ALIERTA, Chairman of Fundación Telefónica, former Chairman of the Spanish Competitiveness Council, of Tabacalera and of Telefónica. He was responsible for the storage, custody and distribution throughout Spain of the new euro banknotes and coins
- NICOLÁS COTONER Y COTONER, Marquis of Mondéjar, Head of His Majesty the King's Household and later Private Counsellor to His Majesty the King
- RICARDO DÍEZ HOCHLEITNER, President of the Club of Rome, former Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education and Science
- RENÉ-JEAN DUPUY, President of the Institut de Droit International, sole arbitrator in the Texaco-Calasiatic v. Libyan Government case
- FRANCISCO FERNÁNDEZ ORDÓÑEZ, Minister of Foreign Affairs, having previously been Minister of Justice and of Finance
- JOSÉ MANUEL PAZ AGÜERAS, Technical Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, former Ambassador to Zimbabwe and to the Principality of Andorra, and Ambassador on Special Mission for EXPO Zaragoza