Board of Trustees appoints new Trustees

November 7, 2019

This 7 November 2019, the board of Trustees at the Norman Foster Foundation unanimously agreed on the appointment of Mr. Oscar Fanjul, Ms. Belinda Tato and the Hon. Eduardo Foster as Trustees.

Oscar Fanjul holds a PhD in Economics, having been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics at both Harvard University and at MIT. Today, he is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and a trustee of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Empresa (IESE), of the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (Bank of Spain) and of the Aspen Institute (Spain). Additionally, Mr. Fanjul is the Founding Chairman and former CEO of Repsol. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Omega Capital, the Vice Chairman of LafargeHolcim as well as a board member of The Marsh and McLennan Companies and of Ferrovial.

Eduardo Foster is currently a student at NYU’s Stern School of Business in the United States. His interests include a varied mix of filmmaking, technology, design and business. Over the years, Eduardo Foster has furthered these interests through work experiences at companies across the globe including Aon in the United Kingdom, Related Companies in the United States, Foster+Partners in the United Kingdom and a leading drone cinematography company in the United States. Ever since the age of fourteen, Eduardo Foster has founded and successfully managed several companies related to his varied interests.

Belinda Tato has been a faculty member at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in Cambridge and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York since 2010. She is the co-founder and co-director of the firm Ecosistema Urbano, established in Madrid in 2000. She has led workshops, lectured and taught at the most prestigious institutions worldwide.