Gaspar Atienza
Mr. Gaspar Atienza graduated with a degree in Law and a diploma in Business Administration from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), in Madrid, Spain, in 1998. In 2000 Mr. Atienza graduated from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University with a Master's degree in International Relations, while working at the European Delegation at the United Nations. In September 2000 Mr. Atienza joined the Financial Law Department of Spain’s largest Law Firm, Garrigues Abogados, and since then has combined the practice of private financial Law with the study of International Public Law, International Relations and regular academic and journalistic contributions in Spanish universities and media.
Since 2003 Mr. Atienza has been studying at the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset attached to the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid in his Ph.D. on International Public Law and International Relations, and is focusing his doctoral dissertation on the relation of power and law in the international order and the influence of the so called "democratic norm" on non-democratic states.