Experience Hay Festival Segovia 2021 with IE Foundation
For another year, IE University has been the venue for more than 20 events on its Segovia campus, September 16-19. Photo: Roberto Arribas.
Between September 16 and 19, IE University hosted more than 20 events during the Hay Festival Segovia 2021, the international cultural festival and recipient of the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 2020. The prospects for world peace, challenges of sustainability, and growth of the global economy were among the topics covered at IE University’s Segovia campus. This year’s edition was hybrid, bringing together international figures in person and broadcast via live streaming.
Among the speakers, IE University together with IE Foundation hosted Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, who talked with human rights activist Ingrid Betancourt in a debate moderated by the journalist Jesús Vigorra and opened by Diego del Alcázar Benjumea, CEO of IE University.
Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, President of IE University, sat down with Lucy Kellaway, writer, former Financial Times columnist, and now school teacher, about the keys to starting a new career later in life. Other guests included Javier Maroto, a Popular Party senator, Elcin Poyrazlar, Turkish author and columnist, Gonzalo Garland, economist and executive vice president of the IE Foundation, while Pallavi Aiyar, Indian journalist and deputy editor of The Globalist, discussed the challenges of global economics and politics with Giles Tremlett, the author of several books and a former correspondent for The Guardian.
Europe was the focus of the Financial Times Weekend debate between former Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya and journalists Frederick Studemann, Lucía Méndez, Simon Kuper, Ana Carbajosa, and Daniel Dombey.
In the run up to COP26, Nick Bridge, Special Representative of the British Government for Climate Change, Eva Saldaña, Executive Director of Greenpeace Spain, Eduardo Brunet, Founder and CEO of Greenward Partners, and Rubeena Singh, a graduate of IE University and former President of the IE Net Impact Club, discussed the challenges of sustainable management and the future of our planet in a panel moderated by Financial Times’s Daniel Dombey and presented by Isabela del Alcázar, IE University’s Director of Sustainability.
Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban discussed how sustainability should be at the heart of any design process, together with Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design. The festival also included great names in international literature such as John Boyne, Bernardine Evaristo, Niklas Natt Och Dag, Pallavi Aiyar, Gonçalo Tavares, José Luís Peixoto, Douglas Stuart, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Mathias Enard and Andri Snær Magnason. Also in attendance were artists Maysun, Joanie Lemercier, filmmaker Fernando Trueba, designer Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, and Spanish writers Ray Loriga, Eva Sáenz de Urturi, María Dueñas, César Antonio Molina, Julia Navarro, Javier Sierra and Manuel Jabois, among others.