The Diplomat
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Julissa Reynoso, will participate next Friday in Barcelona in the main event of the 50th anniversary of the think tank Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State from 2009-2013 and the first woman to be a candidate for the presidency of the United States, will take part – on her first trip to Barcelona – in the dialogue A life in global politics, together with the Director of CIDOB, Pol Morillas. The event will be held on Friday, 2 June at 5:30 p.m., and will feature institutional interventions by Antoni Segura, President of CIDOB, and Ambassador Julissa Reynoso. Hillary Clinton will be received in audience on Wednesday 31 June by His Majesty the King at the Zarzuela Palace.
CIDOB was founded in 1973 by a group of citizens who had recently returned from Chile – among them the founder of the think tank, Josep Ribera – with the aim of creating an observatory of international events, particularly in Latin America. As an initiative born of civil society, and with the arrival of democracy, in 1979 CIDOB was constituted as a private foundation under the name Centre d’Informació i Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona, and currently as the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs.
“In its 50 years of history, CIDOB has witnessed the main events that have shaken Europe and the world, always with the desire to explain global politics and its impact on public and private institutions and on civil society, transcending the classic structures of international relations and making values, analysis, research and dissemination compatible,” the organisation stressed in a press release.
“Pioneer in the study of international relations and in the production of knowledge in this area through its publications, CIDOB is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a world marked by Russian aggression against Ukraine, post-pandemia, the global confrontation between great powers, the retreat of democracies and the climate crisis, among others, vindicating its role as an independent think tank, of prestige and reference in international issues, and with the will to continue explaining and offering plural visions of an international system in transformation”, it concluded.
