Biographies of Conference Directors and Chief Executive

Adela Gooch
Adela Gooch has been a Programme Director and member of Wilton Park Academic Staff since 2003. Her work centres on emerging powers and transitional states and includes projects on Russia, China, Latin America, the European Union's role in foreign and security policy, intervention and nation/state building.

Previously, she was a foreign correspondent, based in Madrid, reporting on Spain, Portugal and North Africa for The Economist and The Guardian and travelling to Latin America also. She is a regular commentator on international affairs for Spanish television and radio, the BBC and CNN and ran Madrid's Foreign Press Club. She was awarded the Barcelona Foundation's prize for international journalism.

Adela Gooch began her career as a journalist with Reuters News Agency in London. She was posted to the United States and reported from New York, the United Nations, Chicago and Washington. She then joined The Daily Telegraph in London and covered defence issues before returning to the United States as Laurence Stern fellow at The Washington Post.

Adela Gooch read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University (MA Hons) and studied at Seville University, also.

She was appointed to the Order of the British Empire for services to Anglo Spanish relations.