IDEAS Foundation for progress

[1] "IDEAS" is an acronym which stands for "Igualdad, Derecho, Ecología, Acción y Solidaridad" (Equality, Rights, Ecology, Action and Solidarity), concepts of reference to the social democratic ideology of this think tank.

After Jesús Caldera left the Ministry of Labor in April 2008, it was announced that his new challenge was to create, put in motion and preside over a large think tank.

The board members are: José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero; Jesús Caldera; Manuel Chaves; José Blanco López; Marcelino Iglesias; Elena Valenciano; Cristina Narbona; Pedro Zerolo; María González Veracruz; Reyes Maroto; Antonio Hernando; Cándida Martínez; Octavio Granado; Hugo Morán; Soledad Pérez; Soledad Cabezón; Xoan Cornide; José Andrés Torres Mora; Ludolfo Paramio; and Lentxu Rubial.

Further, the Scientific Committee serves in an advisory capacity to the foundation on which direction to take in terms of priorities in investigation and other activities.

Its members are: Pedro Alonso; Helen Caldicott; Torben Iversen; George Lakoff; Wolfgang Merkel; María Teresa Miras; Dominique Mollard; Loretta Napoleoni; Guillermo O´Donnell; Emilio Ontiveros; Philip Pettit; Joseph Stiglitz; Jeremy Rifkin; Maria João Rodrigues; Jeffrey Sachs; Nicholas Stern; André Sapir; Vandana Shiva; Aminata Traoré; Torsten Wiesel; Kemal Derviş; and Pippa Norris.