Guillermo de la Dehesa is the Chairman of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He spent twenty years in various Spanish governmental positions from the late 1960s through to the 1980s. Since leaving the public sector he has held a number of chairman and chief executive positions in the private sector; he is currently Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs Europe, Independent Director of the Santander Banking Group and of Aviva plc, and Chairman of the Instituto de Empresa Business School. He is a member of the “Group of Thirty,” a non-profit, independent consultative group which counts luminaries such as Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England), Larry Summers (former President of Harvard), and Paul Krugman among its ranks. Guillermo de la Dehesa is also the author of Winners and Losers in Globalization (Blackwell, 2006).