Management Council
Honorary President
• The Ambassador of Spain (ex-officio)
Executive Chairman
• David Brighty CMG, CVO
Members of the Council
• Rt. Hon. Michael Portillo
• Dame Denise Holt
• Miguel Dols
• Juan López Trigo
• Carlos Pascual de Miguel
• Jimmy Burns-Marañón
• Balasi Abando
• Nicolás Belmonte
• Prof. Helen Graham
• Prof. Montserrat Guibernau
• Prof. Paul Preston CBE, FBA
• Ana de Miguel (Secretary)

Meeting of the CBC Management Council, 27 June 2013. From left to right:
Jimmy Burns-Marañón, Miguel Dols, David Brighty, Ana de Miguel,
Helen Graham, Paul Preston and Michael Portillo.
Staff
David Brighty, CMG, CVO - Executive Chairman of the Management Committee
of the Centre.
Paul Preston, CBE, FBA - Director of the Centre; Príncipe de Asturias Professor
of Contemporary Spanish Studies, London School of Economics. LSE Experts profile, LSE International History profile.
Sebastian Balfour - Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies, Department of Government, European Institute, London School of Economics. LSE Experts profile.
Susana Grau - Manager.
Ana de Miguel - External Advisor on Regional Projects and Secretary of the Management Council.
Senior Fellows
Julián Casanova - Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Helen Graham - Professor of Modern European History at the University of London (Royal Holloway).
Enrique Moradiellos - Professor of Modern International and Spanish History at the University of Extremadura, Spain.
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose - Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics. LSE Experts profile.
Ismael Saz - Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia, Spain.
Ángel Viñas - Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Mary Vincent - Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sheffield.
Manuel Cienfuegos - Professor of International and European Law at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
Joan-Pau Rubiés - Research Professor of Humanities, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
María Jesús González - Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Cantabria, Spain.
Michael Richards - Associate Professor of Contemporary European History,
University of the West of England.
Chris Ealham - Professor of History, Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain.
Fellows
Francisco J. Romero - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese
and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol.
Sandra Isabel Souto - Senior Research Fellow, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC, Madrid), Spain.
José Manuel Mata - Reader in Political Science, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain.
Gijs van Hensbergen - Historian of Spanish Art and Architecture, Oxford.
Giles Tremlett - Biographer, writer and political commentator, Madrid.
Maria Thomas - Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Exeter.
Boris Volodarsky - Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Independent Intelligence Analysis, London.
Richard Baxell - Historian of Britain, Spain and the International Brigades, London.
Rúben Serem - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Lisbon.
Nick Rider - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, London.