Solana vs ethereum
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Javier Solana
Former Secretary General, NATO. Chairman, ESADEgeo
Javier Solana is president of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona-Madrid), and president of the Royal Board of the Prado Museum. He is distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, senior fellow at the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin), chairman of the Aspen Institute Spain. He is also board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (London, Berlin), the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), the Munich Security Conference, the Fundación La Caixa, and the Telefónica Security Advisory Board. Likewise, he is visiting professor at the London School of Economics, where he was awarded an honorary degree in December 2010, and Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard.
From 1999 to 2009, Dr. Solana was Secretary General of the Council of the European Union (EU); and from 1995 to 1999, Secretary General of NATO. Dr. Solana is the former High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union. Prior to this, he has held several ministerial posit
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Javier Solana
Spanish politician (born 1942)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Solana and the second or maternal family name is de Madariaga.
Francisco Javier Solana de MadariagaKCMGCYC (Spanish:[fɾanˈθiskoxaˈβjeɾsoˈlanaðemaðaˈɾjaɣa]; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the Secretary General of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
Background and career as a physicist
Solana was born in Madrid, Spain. He comes from a prominent Spanish family, being a first cousin, twice removed, of diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist Salvador de Madariaga[1] (Javier's grandfather, Rogelio de Madar
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Artists
Solana was born in Madrid on February 28th, 1886. His vocation for drawing emerged already in his school days. His family house was robbed by a troublemaker wearing a mask during a carnival celebration, an experience which terrorized young Solana, who would be haunted by this memory throughout his entire life. He was deeply affected by the death of his father in 1898, seeking consolation in his brother, Manuel. At the age of 14 he entered the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, where Anatomy-- together with bulls-- would become one of his favourite themes.
Having completed his studies, he presented his first works at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. During a gathering at the Café de Levante he met Zuloaga, who praised his work. In 1909 the family moved to Santander. Solana travelled often and finished his book "Madrid. Scenes and customs". At the Café Pombo of Madrid he came into contact with the intellectual figures of the time, and conceived his famous canvas "The coffee gathering Pombo". Gomez de la Serna published the first biography of Solana in 1918. He took p
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