To collect expert information, the Committee met with a number of internationally recognized academic experts and recognized expert practitioners, who provided testimony on these issues. The list of these individuals is provided below:
- Professor Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Iñigo Albizuri Landazabal (Mondragon Corporation)
- Saioa Arando Lasagabaster (Mondragon Corporation)
- Professor Antonio Casilli (Télécom-Paris)
- Professor Olivier De Schutter (University of Louvain / United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights)
- Professor Valerio De Stefano (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto)
- Maria Jose Díaz Luque (Chief Inspector of Work and Social Security and Coordinator of Equality at the Junta de Andalucía)
- Professor Timothée Duverger (Sciences-Po Bordeaux)
- Professor Gaudencio Esteban Velasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Professor Axel Honneth (Institute for Social Research, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main / Columbia University)
- Professor Simon Jäger (Princeton University)
- Doctor Max Krahé (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Professor Holm-Detlev Köhler (University of Oviedo)
- Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (University of Manchester)
- Professor Ewan McGaughey (King’s College London)
- Professor Paul Osterman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Javier Pacheco (former Secretary General of the National Workers’ Commission of Catalonia (CONC), currently confederal secretary for trade union action at Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO))
- Professor Katharina Pistor (Columbia University)
- Professor Valeria Pulignano (KU Leuven)
- Professor Philippe Roman (ICHEC Brussels Management School)
- Professor Dani Rodrik (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
In total, the Committee convened for a total of 16 virtual meetings between December 2024 and September 2025.
To solicit input from the social partners, business and union leaders, and a number of relevant representatives of Spanish civil society, the Committee held hearings at the premises of the Ministry of Labor from June 3 to 5, 2025. The Committee met with the following organizations and their representatives:
- CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations): Rosa Santos Fernández (Director of Employment, Diversity and Social Protection) and Ana Herráez Plaza (Responsible of the Labour Market)
- CEPYME (Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises): Teresa Díaz de Terán (Director of the Socio-Labour Department)
- CEPES (Spanish Business Confederation of Social Economy): Juan Antonio Pedreño Frutos (President)
- ASLE (Asociación de sociedades laborales y economía social): Jone Nolte (Managing Director)
- SANNAS (Asociación de empresas de Triple Balance): Almudena Mestre (Manager)
- UGT (General Union of Workers): Fernando Luján de Frías (Vice Secretary General) and Patricia Ruíz Martínez (Secretary of Labour Health)
- CCOO (Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions): Carlos Gutierrez Calderon (Secretary of Studies and Trade Union Training)
- CIG (Galician Unions Confederacy): Susana Méndez (Secretary)
- International Committee of Experts to Demand Greater Social Responsibility from Firms, established by the Spanish Ministry of Labor: Profesor Jesús Cruz Villalón (President)
- Economists without Borders: Beatriz Fernández Olit (President)
- Euclid Vision Group: Inma León Martínez (Human Resources Business Partner)
- Fundación Arizmendiarrieta: Juan Manuel Sinde (President) and Carlos de la Higuera (Member)
- Plataforma por la Democracia Económica: Ignacio Muro (Vice President) and Antonio Ferrer Sais (Board Member)
- Fundación Primero de Mayo: Vicente López Martínez (General Director), Jesús Cruces Aguilera (Senior Researcher), and Alicia Martínez Poza (Senior Researcher)
Expert Economists
- Rocío Bonet (Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at IE Business School)
- Florentino Felgueroso (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oviedo)
- Iñigo González (Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Barcelona)
- Emilio Huerta (Professor in the Department of Business Management and Chair of Business Organization at the Public University of Navarra)
- Juan Francisco Jimeno (Advisor at the Bank of Spain and Professor of Economics at the University of Alcalá)
- Sara de la Rica (Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country)
