Esteban López-Escobar

Esteban López-Escobar was born and brought up in Asturias in northern Spain, where he took his first degree in the law school of Oviedo University. He did post-graduate work in law, journalism and mass communication at the University of Navarra (Pamplona). He then received his doctorate in law from the University of Seville where he studied and taught for eleven years. In 1972, López-Escobar was invited to teach at the University of Navarra School of Journalism. He was the first director of the Department of Public Communication at that school, as well as a member of the steering committee for the Program for Latin American Graduates (PGLA) and of the University’s doctoral studies commission. His special interests are in the fields of international communication, communication policy, and public opinion. He has been a trustee of the International Institute of Communications and a member of the strategic council of the European Institute for the Media. Recently, he was elected president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research. López-Escobar will study how the Internet is changing the professional mind and journalistic understanding of social, political and communication changes in a new global civil society.