Rafael Iruzubieta Fernández is a Spanish academic, lawyer and Indologist.
[2] Rafael Iruzubieta Fernández was born on 13 January 1940 in the Spanish capital of Madrid.
[1] Iruzubieta met Professor Vasant Gadre, a professor of Spanish language, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, in 1969 and developed a fascination for Indology.
He has since founded the Institute of Indology, a nonprofit organization for cultural exchanges between Spain and India.
The institute conducts bi-annual courses on India studies at the Complutense University of Madrid.