Professor José Remesal, president of the Nominations Committee of the International Academic Union

The UAI is a global organization of national academies in the field of humanities and social sciences. UAI works to set up, recognise, promote and fund international long-term research projects. Created in 1919, the UAI is composed by around one hundred academies from 63 worldwide countries. The Nominations Committee proposes candidates for top positions such as President or Vice-President to the General Assembly.

José Remesal (Lora del Río, Seville, 1948) is expert on social and economic history of the Roman Empire and he has focused his research on studying the production and commerce of food, particularly olive oil coming from Hispania, in the Ancient World and the Roman control over this commerce. Together with José M. Blánquez, he has directed Monte Testaccio excavations, in Rome, for more than twenty years. He is responsible for the UAI project Corpus of Latin amphorical epigraphy. Remesal, who received the Humanities Academia Award 2008 conferred by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), is member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, the Board of the UAI, the German Archaeological Institute, the Sevillian Royal Academy of Good Letters and the National Institute of Roman Studies.