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Patricia Fernández

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Work Department

Art and Cultural Heritage

Position

Of Counsel.

Career

Legal advisor in art law and cultural heritage. Writer and aca­demic researcher in the history of collecting and patrona­ge. Lecturer in Art Law in the Master of Laws (LLM) at IE. Ho­norary collaborator at the Complutense University of Madrid. Previously she has developed her legal career as associate di­rector of the firm Belzuz Abogados in Lisbon. In the public ad­ministration she has been General Director of European Union affairs of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, being responsi­ble for the management of regional development funds. She has also been Director of the venture capital fund Seed Ca­pital and of the business incubator Beaz Bizkaia. As an execu­tive she has worked at the insurance broker Aon Gil&Carvajal and, as an entrepreneur, as a founding partner of ART-MEDIA, S.L., specialized in the trade of works of art by television media.

Memberships

• Secretary of the Toledo Chapter Council, for the defense of Spain’s legacy in North America.

• ERNOP- European Research Network on Philanthropy-.

• Deusto Business Alumni Contemporary History Association.

• Association of Friends of the Guggenheim Museum, the Prado Museum and the MNCARS.

Education

• PhD in History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

• Diploma of Advanced Studies in Contemporary History, Univer­sidad Complutense de Madrid.

• Degree in Law, specializing in Law and Economics, Universi­ty of Deusto. Erasmus Program in European Law, University of Liege.

• Master of Research in Cultural Law, UC3M-UNED.

• International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management, New York University and Deusto Business School.

• Management of Cultural Institutions, Focused Program, IESE Business School.

Personal

Teaching:

• Instituto de Empresa (IE) Master of Law LLM in Art Law.

• Complutense University of Madrid, Honorary Collaborator, Fa­culty of Contemporary History. Summer courses at El Escorial.

• Dartmouth University, Visiting Fellow, Seminar on Hispanic Stu­dies.

• Cambridge University, Seminar on Spanish intellectuals in the Anglosphere.

• University of Alcalá de Henares, Instituto Benjamin Franklin, In­ternational Congress Vínculos España-Norteamérica.

• Lectures at Instituto Cervantes, Oxford University, Mu­seo de América, Museo de Cervantes, Museo Soro­lla, MNCARS, FIDE, Real Academia de Jurisprudencia.