Meeting of the jury for the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities

The Jury responsible for conferring the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities will meet this coming 10th and 11th May in Oviedo. This is the second of the eight international awards convened by the Princess of Asturias Foundation this year, now in their 42nd year. A total of 40 candidatures encompassing 16 different nationalities are in the running for the Award. The meetings will be held at the Reconquista Hotel, Oviedo.

As stated in the Foundation’s Statutes, the Princess of Asturias Awards are aimed at rewarding “the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian work carried out at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. In keeping with these principles, the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities is to be granted to “the work of fostering and advancing the sciences and disciplines considered humanistic activities or any activity related to social communication in any of its forms.”

Each Princess of Asturias Award comprises a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Award, a diploma, an insignia and a cash prize of fifty thousand euros.

The members of the Jury will hold an initial meeting with the media at 11:00am on Tuesday 10th in the hotel’s “Salón de Consejos” reception room (first floor) immediately prior to its formal constitution and the start of its deliberations, which will commence at 11:30am. Each jury shall have a chairperson and an acting secretary. Both shall be appointed by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and shall have voice and vote.

The Jury’s decision will be announced at 12:00 noon (GMT+2:00) on Wednesday 11th, in the “Salón Covadonga” reception room in the same hotel (ground floor), following which the members of the Jury will be available for interview.

Composition of the Jury

The Jury will be made up of the following persons:

• Víctor García de la Concha (chair)
• Alberto Anaut González (acting secretary)
• Luis María Anson Oliart
• Gabriela Cañas Pita de la Vega
• Adela Cortina Orts
• Estrella de Diego Otero
• Miguel Falomir Faus
• Taciana Fisac Badell
• Santiago González Suárez
• Alex Grijelmo García
• Miguel Ángel Liso Tejada
• Helena López de Hierro d’Aubarède
• Enrique Pascual Pons
• José Manuel Pérez Tornero
• Carmen Riera I Guilera
• Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente
• María Sefidari Huici