Honorary Doctor Degrees
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Economics and Business.
- Date: Friday 21 February 2025.
- Sponsor: José Luis García Delgado.
With a PhD in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Law from the UNED, Pablo Hernández de Cos has been Governor of the Bank of Spain and has held prominent positions including Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Alternate Governor for Spain at the International Monetary Fund, member of the Governing Council and General Council of the European Central Bank. He is a member of the Council of State, of the Chamber of Economic and Management Sciences of the Nicolás Copérnico Academy, chairs the Governing Board of the Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies and is Professor of Economics at the IESE Business School.
- Investiture proposed by the Escuela Politécnica Superior.
- Date: Tuesday 19 March 2024.
- Sponsor: Rolf Tarrach Siegel.
D. in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid, Cirac is director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany). A world expert in quantum technologies and their applications, Cirac has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. He has also participated in research projects at the universities of Harvard, Hamburg, Santa Barbara, Oxford, Hannover, Bristol, Paris, the Saclay Centre for Nuclear Studies, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on quantum information theory, developing a computing system based on quantum mechanics that is expected to enable much faster algorithms to be designed in the future.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Law and International Relations.
- Date: Friday 3 March 2023.
- Sponsor: Alfonso López de la Osa.
Araceli Mangas Martín is a jurist with a brilliant academic and research career in the area of Public Law and International Relations, and a world authority in the field. Her lines of research range from International Humanitarian Law and armed conflicts to equality policies and the institutional system of the European Union. She trained at the University of Salamanca and is currently Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid and a full member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain. She is also a member of the Spanish Commission on International Humanitarian Law. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, such as the Julián Marías Humanities prize for her scientific career, the UNICEF medal and the designation of European Woman of the Year 1992 in Spain. She has acted as advisor to the Spanish government on international affairs, as a member of numerous scientific councils and boards of trustees and as an expert in the drafting of opinions on international legal problems. She has edited important journals in her field such as the Revista General de Derecho Europeo. She has seven six-year research fellowships and is the author of countless publications in her field. For her very rich scientific and social contribution to the area of international public law, it is an honour for the Nebrija University to confer her the status of honorary doctorate from our institution.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Life and Nature Sciences.
- Date: Friday 18 November 2022.
- Sponsor: Cristina Garmendia.
Carlos López-Otín is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Oviedo. He has done research at the Centro Ramón y Cajal and the Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid and also at the distinguished universities of Lund (Sweden), New York and Harvard (USA). He is the author of 30 book chapters and more than 400 scientific publications, including some in the most prestigious journals in the world, such as Nature, Science and Cell. His tireless research work has identified the cause of several hereditary diseases, discovered two new premature ageing syndromes and made it possible to identify more than 60 human genes, among many other achievements. López-Otín has received countless awards and distinctions, such as the Jaime I Research Prize and the Santiago Ramón y Cajal National Research Prize. His work as a researcher places him as the Spanish scientist with the greatest impact in his field and as the only Spaniard among the top 10 in Europe in his discipline. For his contributions to cancer and ageing research, it is an honour for Nebrija University to award Professor Doctor Carlos López-Otín the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from our institution.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Communication and Arts.
- Date: Thursday 23 September 2021.
- Sponsor: Marta Perlado Lamo de Espinosa.
Toni Segarra is probably the most important advertising creative in our country and undoubtedly one of the most outstanding in the world. A lover of words - he has a degree in Hispanic Philology - he has always shown a natural ability to captivate with multimedia messages. Founder of dazzling agencies, tireless winner of awards (39 Cannes Festival Lions, including an almost unassailable Grand Prix, 100 Suns at the San Sebastian Festival...) and juror of numerous prizes. His merits in the world of advertising are countless: best creative of the century according to Anuncios magazine, one of the 100 Top Creative Minds of Shots magazine, best creative of the decade by El Publicista magazine, National Communication Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya... The industry to which he belongs admires him and we consumers remember his indelible works such as that "Hand" that caressed the air from a BMW.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Communication and Arts.
- Date: Tuesday 30 June 2009.
- Sponsor: Marta Perlado.
José Manuel Lara Bosch has been president of Grupo Planeta and Antena 3 since the death in 2003 of his father, José Manuel Lara Hernández, founder of this business colossus in the communications sector, which today occupies first place among communications companies operating in Spain, France and Latin America.
This businessman was born in Barcelona on 8 March 1946 and studied Economics at the University of Barcelona. He also holds a Master's degree from ESADE. He has been linked to the family business, created in 1949, since 1963, occupying various positions of responsibility.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Instituto Empresa Familiar and of the boards of Banco Sabadell Atlántico and Grupo Zed.
The Faculty of Communication and Arts of the Antonio de Nebrija University proposed him as a possible Doctor Honoris Causa for his outstanding role in the social and communicative development of our country and for the importance that Grupo Planeta attaches to training.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Date: Tuesday 30 June 2009.
- Sponsor: Eduardo Serra Rexach.
José María Fernández Sousa-Faro was born in Madrid in 1945. He holds a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Biochemistry from the Complutense University of Madrid, where he taught various subjects between 1968 and 1979. He was also Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Santiago de Compostela.
Since 1985, he has been Chairman of the Zeltia Group. A year later, he founded PharmaMar, a chemical company specialising in the discovery of drugs of marine origin, of which he is also Chairman. In 1990, he founded Genómica, a biotechnology company dedicated to DNA analysis for diagnostic purposes.
José María Fernández Sousa-Faro has nearly 100 scientific publications and patents.
He was proposed at the request of the Faculty of Social Sciences as Doctor Honoris Causa of the Antonio de Nebrija University for his capacity for leadership and innovation and for his initiative, originality and efficiency at the helm of Grupo Zeltia and PharmaMar.
- Investiture proposed by the Faculty of Languages and Education.
- Date: Tuesday 30 June 2009.
- Sponsor: Marta Baralo Ottonello.
Víctor García de la Concha was born on 2 January 1934 in Villaviciosa, Asturias. He graduated in Philology at the University of Oviedo and in Theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. He worked at the universities of Valladolid, Murcia and Zaragoza until he obtained the Chair in Spanish Literature at the University of Salamanca, where he directed the international courses.
In 1992 he joined the Royal Spanish Academy as a full member, occupying chair 'c'. In 1993 he was appointed secretary and in 1998 director. He held this position until 2010, when he left the post because he had completed his third term of office, the third being granted in an extraordinary capacity, as the bylaws stipulate a maximum of two terms.
In 2010 King Juan Carlos made him a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Víctor García de la Concha was the candidate proposed by the Faculty of Languages and Education, which valued his brilliant work in the direction of the Royal Spanish Academy and the dissemination of the culture and linguistics of our country.
- Date: Thursday 2 June 2011
- Sponsor: Juan Antonio Maestro de la Cuerda.
- Laudatio by Ladislao de Arriba Azcona
Martín Chirino was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1925. At the age of 23, Chirino travelled to Madrid to study at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, focusing on ironwork. In Italy he studied the classics, completing his training at the School of Fine Arts in London. After his return to the Canary Islands he produced the series "Black Queens" influenced by African art and surrealism.
From 1967 onwards, Chirino's presence in the USA was frequent and regular. From the 1970s onwards, he produced monumental projects inspired by helicoidal forms, continuing his research into Afro-Canarian values and, later, from constructivist formulations, becoming the internationally prestigious representative of Spanish abstract sculpture.
From 1983 to 1990 he was president of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and from 1989 to 2002 he was director of the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has been awarded, among others, the International Sculpture Prize of the Budapest Biennial, the National Plastic Arts Prize, the Canary Islands Plastic Arts Prize, the Gold Medal for Fine Arts, the National Sculpture Prize of the CEOE, the Medal of Honour of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid and the 2003 Plastic Arts Prize of the Community of Madrid. In 2004 the Royal Mint Foundation awarded him the Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize for medallistics. On this occasion, he has created for the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre-Real Casa de la Moneda the medal entitled "Espiral del viento, elogio a la Música" (Spiral of the Wind, Praise to Music). He is. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias (2008).
- Date: Thursday 2 June 2011
- Sponsor: Alberto López.
- Laudatio by Antonio Garrigues Walker.
He studied piano at the Bilbao Conservatory and completed his musical training in France. His professional activity began in 1972. In order to help young musicians, he founded a Piano Competition in Santander, which soon acquired great international prestige.
The infrastructural deficiencies that the Competition itself had highlighted, led him shortly afterwards to act in the field of musical education, creating, successively, the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, the Fundación Albéniz, the Centro de Archivo y Documentación Albéniz, the Premio Yehudi Menuhin a la Integración de las Artes y la Educación, the Encuentro de Música y Academia, the Instituto Internacional de Música de Cámara de Madrid and the portal Classicalplanet.com, which gives the above a technological and, therefore, universal dimension.
In recognition of the place of national and international reference that her project occupies, Paloma O'Shea has been awarded the Lazo de la Orden de Isabel la Católica, the Orden Cristóbal Colón of the Dominican Republic, the Legion of Honour of the French Government, the Picasso Medal of UNESCO, the Medalla de Honor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando of Madrid, the Montblanc Culture Awards and of the Community of Madrid, the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, the Spanish Institute of New York, and the Madrid City Council. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London and an Adoptive Daughter of Santander and Cantabria. In 2008, His Majesty the King granted her the title of Marquesa de O'Shea.