The University of Navarra has awarded the doctorate honoris causa to four personalities from the academic world. These are the Navarrese architect Rafael Moneo, award Pritzker Architecture Prize 1996; the English sociologist Margaret S. Archer, first woman president of the International Sociologyassociation ; the Hebrew philologist Ruth Fine, whose work has focused on intercultural dialogue between Israel and the Hispanic world; and researcher of Oxford University Robert Picard, expert in Economics and management media.

Since 1964, the academic center has awarded this distinction, for their academic and professional careers, to 39 personalities. The current proposals come from the School of Architecture, from the Institute for Culture and Society, and from the Schools of Philosophy and Letters, and Communication. The investiture ceremony will take place on June 28, 2019.

Rafael Moneo, born in Tudela (Navarra) in 1937, is considered the most internationally renowned Spanish architect. He obtained the degree scroll of architect in the School of Architecture of Madrid in 1961, where he was a professor (1966-1970). In 1972 he obtained the Chair of Elements of Composition at the School of Barcelona, returning to the Chair of Composition at the School of Madrid in 1980.

In 1976 he traveled to the USA to work at the high school of Architecture and programs of study Urban in New York and taught at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. He also taught at Princeton, Lausanne and Harvard, where he directed the department of Architecture for fifteen years. In 1992 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts by the Spanish Government.

award Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996, he has also received the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize for Architecture, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture and the Gold Medal of the International Union of Architects. In 2001 he was awarded the award Mies van der Rohe, in 2012, the award Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes and in 2015, the award Nacional de Arquitectura. 

In Navarra he was awarded the award Príncipe de Viana in 1993 and is honorary doctor by the Public University of Navarra. In addition to teaching teaching at the School of Architecture, his link with the University of Navarra was consolidated with the design of the Museum of the academic center, inaugurated in 2015.

Margaret S. Archer: first president of the association International of Sociology

Margaret S. Archer (UK, 1943) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, and a founding member and current president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. She was also the first woman president of association International Sociology. She received her BA and PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics, University of London, and programs of study from postgraduate program at Sorbonne University. She has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Reading and University of Warwick.

Margaret S. Archer is a qualified representative of the Social Realist Theory. Her central thesis is the autonomy between culture, structure and social action, three independent but not isolated realities, even if each has its specific characteristics. This sociological theory offers a framework of understanding of human action capable of answering the question of what capacity we concrete people have, through our decisions, to transform the culture and the social Structures in which we live. His extensive research has been collected by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Archer first visited the University of Navarra in 2014, when she gave the first ICS Lecture at Institute for Culture and Society, where she is also part of the academic staff of the Master's Degree at research in Social Sciences (MICS).

A Hebrew woman committed to intercultural dialogue between Israel and the Hispanic world

Ruth Viviana Fine, born in Argentina (1957) and of Israeli nationality, holds a degree in Latin, Spanish and Hispano-American Philology from the University of Buenos Aires. She holds a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a professor at its department of Romance Languages and programs of study Latin American. She currently holds the Chair Salomon & Victoria Cohen of Contemporary Latin America, and directs the high school of Humanities Generals and the European Forum.

Specializing in literary theory and narrative of the Spanish Golden Age, especially the work of Cervantes, she has published more than a hundred programs of study in international publishers and journals. She has been distinguished with several awards, among them, the award of Excellence awarded by the President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2013 the Spanish Crown awarded her the Encomienda de la Orden del Mérito Civil for her work in the development of cultural relations between Spain and Israel, and for promote the knowledge of Spanish literature.

She is founder and president of the association of Hispanists of Israel; vice president of the association International Hispanists; and board member of the association International of the Golden Age. As a Hispanist of international prestige, the Royal Spanish Academy, elected her in 2016 as a foreign corresponding academician.

Robert G. Picard: Economics and management media expert

Robert G. Picard was born in 1951 in the USA, completed a Master's Degree at California State University and obtained his doctorate at the University of Missouri. He currently teaches at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, Tampere University in Finland, and the Institute of average and Entertainment at IESE (University of Navarra) in New York, among others.

Until January 2015 he was director of research of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, researcher of Green Templeton College and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In addition, he has chaired from its foundation until May 2018 the World average Economics and Management Conference, the world's leading congress of researchers and academics in Economics media, and was one of the founders of the European average Management Association (EMMA), the first European academic association of researchers in this topic.

Throughout his professional career he has received several awards including the Journal of average Economics Award of Honor or the European average Management Education Association Award. Also in 2000, a award bearing his name was established for the best scientific contribution of the year in the field of Economics media. He is the author and publisher of 32 books and has written more than a hundred academic articles.