Dr. Javier Itúrbide Díaz

graduate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Navarra (1974) and PhD in History from the Public University of Navarra (2006). Civil servant of the Government of Navarra from 1975 until his retirement in 2011. Professor at the Centro Asociado de la UNED in Tudela (2008-2009) and later at the Centro Asociado de Pamplona (2010-2018). He has participated as speaker in courses and activities organized by the University of Navarra, University of Deusto, University of the Basque Country and the Institute of public administration of the Government of Navarra. He has been a member of the committee Navarre of Culture (2012-2015) and Trustee of the Caja Navarra Banking Foundation, as an expert in cultural affairs (2013-2017). He has held the positions of graduate senior librarian of the Library Services Pública de Estella (1977-1983 and 1987-1989), director of the Institución Príncipe de Viana (1984-1986), head of the Publications Section of the Government of Navarra (1990-1995), director Publishing Services He was also head of the Publications Section of the Public University of Navarra (1996-1998), and as a result was elected member of the board Directive of the association of University Publishers of Spain, of which he is partner of Honor (2000). He has been director of the area of Culture of the City Council of Pamplona (1999-2003) and elected member of the Commission of Culture of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (2000). Subsequently, he was director of the Library Service of the Government of Navarra (2004-2007) and head of the University Extension Section of the Government of Navarra (2007-2011).

Based on his doctoral thesis , he has published Escribir e imprimir: el libro en el Reino de Navarra en el siglo XVIII ( 2007); he is also the author of the monograph, with a preface by Víctor Infantes, Los libros de un Reino. Historia de la edición en Navarra (1490-1841). Authors, publishers, printers and booksellers (2015). In relation to Estella, where he lived for a time, he is the author of Estella: bibliography local (1990), and, as part of the collection "Panorama", Estella (3rd ed., 2010). Aimed at teaching activities, he published ¿Qué sabes del Amejoramiento Foral? (1983). He is co-author of Navarra, Historia y Arte: Doce guías para su estudio (1982) and has collaborated in Navarros en América: Cinco crónicas (1992) and in the institutional publication Universidad Pública de Navarra (1997). He has been the literary publisher of, among others, Historia de Navarra, published in five volumes by the Government of Navarre (1994-1995); of Navarra en la mano, an institutional publication of the Government of Navarre, published in five languages (1st ed., 1996); of El Parque Natural de Urbasa y Andía ( 1998) and of El Parque Natural de las Bardenas Reales (1999). In relation to the capital of Navarre, he has coordinated the monographs Pamplona. El siglo XX en imágenes ( 2001) and Pamplona en el tiempo: Historia y Arte (2002). He has participated, as a literary publisher and author, in Cuando las cosas hablan. La Historia contada por cincuenta objetos de Navarra ( 2nd ed., 2015). His priority line of research focuses on the history of books and publishing in the kingdom of Navarre.