ÁLVARO CUADRADO
“Love, Adaptation and Resilience.
My Life Amidst Chaos.”
Activist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Investor
Canary Islands, Spain
alvarocuadrado.com
President of the Square Foundation, from where he has launched more than 20 social and environmental projects in 40 countries: from reforesting more than 180,000 trees in the last 10 years with plantalo.org to supporting indigenous women with microcredits, bringing humanitarian aid to orphanages in Africa or distributing more than 20 million food rations in emergency situations in more than 30 countries with the HambreCero.es project, highlighting the La Palma volcano, the floods in Libya, earthquakes in Morocco and Turkey or the Wars in Ukraine, Syria or Gaza.
As a businessman and investor, he has almost 20 years of experience, more than 25 awards, and the trust of more than 400 clients. He founded Square Green Capital, where he invested in economic resources that helped other impact projects, such as Bluemont.es technology, to obtain drinking water from the air.
He has been vice president of the Ibero-American Federation of Young Entrepreneurs and part of the CEOE’s CSR committee. He participated in the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and the G20 YEA. He is currently Head of Agriculture and Rural area integration at Jeune—European Union.
He has a regular presence in the media for his projects. He appears in different rankings as one of the most influential young people in Spain (Emprendedores Magazine), one of the 5 most successful young people in Spain (Bankinter), and internationally named in the “Young World Leaders” and by the Choiseul Institute as one of the “Economic Leaders of Tomorrow.” He has been awarded the Merit Award Latin America, the Medal of Civil Merit, and named Social Character 2022 for his fight against hunger among the most vulnerable, among other recognitions.
Graduated in CAV from the URJC of Madrid with an Executive at the IE (Business Institute) in Corporate Responsibility; he is a Technician in International Cooperation, with an exchange in Mexico and an academic scholarship in Peru and Ecuador; he is trained in nautical survival, first aid and firefighting by ISAF Sailor Classification Certificate. He has been a professor at several universities on social innovation and has given more than 300 conferences and 18 tours in 8 countries, training more than 76,000 people, receiving the award for best speaker in entrepreneurship from the Complutense University of Madrid.