2005 • Joaquín Navarro-Valls

Joaquín Navarro-Valls received the Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery in 1961 and the Doctorate degree in Medicine with the thesis entitled “Psychiatric disorders as a result of craneal traumatisms”. In 1968 he was awarded the Licentiatein Journalism from the University of Navarra.
From 1984 to 2005 he was director of Press Office of the Holy See. He likewise participated in the international conferences of  United Nations in El Cairo (1994), Copenhagen (1995), Pekin(1995) anad Istanbul (1996).

Among other posts, he was founding member and assistant editor of the journal “Diagonal” (1964); foreign correspondent for the Madrid newspaper “ABC” (1977-1984) in Italy, the Equatorial African countries, Japan and the Phillipines.  He was also president of the Italian Foreign Press Corps in 1983 and 1984.

He received various condecorations and distinctions, such as the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil and the Gran Cruz de Isabel la Catolica. He is author of the following books: “La manipulación publicitaria”(1970), “La familia y el mundo actual” (1976), “La familia y la educación” (1978), and “Fumata Blanca” (1978).