Javier Sierra Pierna – President

After his unforgettable experience in Roma as an Erasmus student, Javier has returned to Salamanca to study a master on Economic Analysis of Law and Public Policies. He has experience in the MUN arena as both a delegate and an organizer and in the previous editions of the Model United Nations University of Salamanca, he has been working in different EXCOM’s positions. Right now he is in charge of MUNUSAL.

It is an honor and a pleasure for him to work with the outstanding group of people who forms the MUNUSAL association. The course 2009/10 presents important goals to the association, but it is easy to face them when your team is full of deeply concerned students who have great ideas and an insatiable thirst for learning new things and meeting new people.

He has been involved in many and very different activities and loves travelling, reading and spending long nights talking with friends while listening to great music.

“You cannot guide the wind, but you can change your sails’ direction” - Chinese proverb

Carolina Torrecilha Valgañon – Vice President

Having obtained her Bachelor in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Salamanca, Carolina started her MUN experience in 2008 by assisting the Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN). The following year she repeated this incredible experience by assisting to the HNMUN again. She participated in both editions of MUNUSAL, being part of the Ibero – American Summit, and winning on both occasions an honourable mention.

This year Carolina is preparing herself for the exams for the diplomatic service while also preparing for voluntary service in the area of international cooperation.

She likes aviation, a passion she inherited from her father, sports and the piano, which she plays since she was five.

Sofia García García – Vice President in Foreign Affairs

Sofía García takes care of the external relations of MUNUSAL. Apart form making contact with foreign universities, she mainly represents MUNUSAL in front of EMUNNET, the European Model United Nations Network of which MUNUSAL is a founder.

She is studying a Masters in International Relations at The New School of New York and her academic interests are on development and global governance amongst others. She already holds an MA on European Union Studies and her undergraduate Studies are in Political Sciences and Journalism.

She loves dancing (specially at MUNUSAL parties…), talking with friends, sitting down on New York parks just to watch the people going by and watching old movies.

Her first wish regarding the MUNs is that more and more new students from all different disciplines discover how interesting, fruitful and fun is to participate in such a unique activity, both for oneself and for the university community.

Alberto Villacampa González - Treasurer

B.A. in Sociology and Political Sciences for the University of Salamanca, Alberto works as a researcher for the Applied Economy Department of the University of Salamanca.

Actively involved in neighborhood representation Alberto is member of the Castilla y León and Salamanca's Federations of Neighbours Associations, and was the President of the Youth Neighbours Association of Salamanca until October 2007.

Alberto was member of the delegation sent to Boston in February 2007 to participate in the Harvard National Model United Nations, representing the University of Salamanca in its first international experience of this kind. In March 2008, he represented France on the World Health Organization Committee at Geneva international Model United Nations.

Founding member and former President of MUNUSAL, during 2008 and 2009 conferences, Alberto was in charge of logistics and finance. Alberto is now working to ensure the success of the Third Model United Nations University of Salamanca and to get the involvement of Salamanca's civil society in such event.

Alberto loves travelling, politics and sports. He is a basketball referee since 1996.

Fuensanta Casanova Pujante – Secretary

Deeply involved in the MUN experience, Fuensanta Casanova, founding member of MUNUSAL, holds the secretary position this year, as well as she did in 2009. Along with the rest of the team, she is willing to fullfill the expectations of MUNUSAL 2010. Looking at her MUN background, in 2007 she took part in the Harvard National Model United Nations representing Bhutan in the Legal Committee. Later on, she participated as the delegate of Nigeria in the Catalonian Model United Nations. Inn April 2008 she had the honour of being chair of the Iberoamerican Summit in MUNUSAL 08. Eventually, she attended HNMUN last February representing Bulgary in the World Health Organization.

Born in Murcia in 1987, she moved out to Salamanca in 2005 to study English and Spanish Philology. Led by her willing of becoming part of the anglo-saxon culture, she was an Erasmus student in the Trinity College of Dublin in 2008. Next year, when she finishes her degree, she will master in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. Regarding her teaching skills, she has been a volunteer for a local inmigration association, teaching Spanish to inmigrants; for her, one of the most fuitful experience ever. Finally, completing the general picture of Fuensanta's interests, she is fond of reading 20th century writers, loves watching movies at home, enjoys playing piano and now she is attempting to learn how to play the guitar!