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Who are we?
Casa Asia was created with the will to strengthen the knowledge and dialogue about Asia in Spain, with the analysis and discussion of civic, political, social, cultural, economic and environmental issues, supporting activities and projects that contribute to a better knowledge between Asian and Spanish societies, and to promote the development of relations among them.
In the recent decades, the region of Asia and the Pacific has been outlined as one of the most dynamic geographic centres of the planet because it has become the area of greatest demographic and economic growth of the world. It must be highlighted that it concentrates more than 50% of the human population and it produces around 25% of the world GDP and it will be doubtlessly one of the keys of the 21st Century.
Therefore, it consists of building a project based on collaboration among all the agents interested in Asia and the Pacific, with a vocation of service and with the aspiration of becoming a reference regarding this part of the world. With this purpose, Casa Asia was created in 2001 with a consortium made up of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, through its Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona and Madrid City Councils.
From the beginning, Casa Asia has turned to new technologies in order to approach both societies. For this reason, the technological platform of Casa Asia aims at becoming an open window to all those interested in learning and sharing knowledge about Asia and the Pacific and it would like to be an intercultural communication space where not only information of the activities of Casa Asia in all its fields can be found, but also specialised information and multimedia contents regarding this area of the world.
Team
Juan José Herrera de la Muela, General Director
Anna Martinez Riba, General Secretary
Ramon Gurruchaga, Manager
Johanna Adolphs, InfoAsia
Alejandro Algaba, New Projects
Lucia Álvarez, Management
Ángel Aranguren, Executive Adviser of the General Director
Marta Ballada, Internet and Multimedia
Marta Batlle, General Management
Carmen Bedoya, Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Elvira Bodi, Management of the Casa Asia Centre-Madrid
Eva Borreguero, Director of Educational Programmes
Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society
Neus de Campos, General Secretariat
Josep Casaus, Director of Communication
Javier Castañeda, Director of Technology and Cyberculture
Aline Charransol, ClubCasaAsia
Rosa Chenlo, Media Library
Rodrigo Escamilla, Culture and Exhibitions
Aixa Fenero, Publications
Maria Fusté, Politics and Society
Jorge Fuentealba, Ibero-American Observatory of Asia-Pacific
Gilberto Gil, Management of the Casa Asia Centre-Madrid
Oriol Gironès, Internet and Multimedia
Núria Golferichs, General Secretariat
Jordi González, Financial Adviser
Anna Gornès, General Management
Menene Gras, Director of Culture and Exhibitions
Teresa Gutiérrez del Álamo, Programmes Director, Casa Asia Centre-Madrid
Amadeo Jensana, Director of Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Amaia Judge, Internet and Multimedia
Imma Llort, Bamboo School-Educational Programmes
Cristian Maestre, Media Library
Aurèlia Mañé, Director of the Observatory of Central Asia
Laura Martín, Media Library
Guillermo Martínez, Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Bernat Masferrer, Communities Strategy
Olga Miró, Publications
Gonzalo Monge, Culture and Exhibitions
Cristina Montiel, Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Oihana Montilla, Director of the Media Library
Marta Moreno, Media Library
Estela Morón, Communication
Antonio Raúl Muñoz, InfoAsia
Anahita Nasirossadat, General Secretariat
Yasmin Paricio, Politics and Society
Gaëlle Patin Laloy, Communities Strategy
Carmen Pi-Sunyer, Director of Institutional Relations
Renata Piazza, Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Pedro Ralda, Sponsoring and Patronage
Adelaida Rodríguez, Management
Elvira Sánchez Mateos, General Technical Coordinator
Heike Schwarz, Economic and Cooperation Programmes
Cécile Senén, Educational Programmes
Eva Soms, Observatory of Central Asia
María José Soriano, InfoAsia
Sofía Tarela, General Management
Laia Tobella, Publications
Anna Vázquez, Communication
David Vega, Educational Programmes
Jesús Villano, Production and Maintenance
