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Joaquín Roy is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Miami and Co-Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, Miami. He received his law degree from the University of Barcelona and his doctorate from Georgetown University. He was previously on the faculty of the School of International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and of Emory University. His research and teaching areas are the history of political ideas, Latin American thought, intellectual history and literature, contemporary ideologies, regional integration, transitions to democracy, and human rights policies. His regional focus is on Cuba, Argentina, Spain, Central America, the European Union, and European-Latin American relations. His articles and reviews have been published in Revista Iberoamericana, Journal of Interamerican Studies, Revista Espanola de Derecho Comunitario, Revista de Estudios Internacionales, Politica Exterior, and The European Union Review. Among his 25 books are Cuba y Espana: Relaciones y Percepciones (Madrid BCC, 1988); The Reconstruction of Central America: The Role of the European Community (North-South Center, 1991); The Ibero-American Space/El Espacio Iberoamericano (University of Miami/University of Barcelona, 1996); Memorias de mi Juventud en Cuba durante la Guerra Separatista (Barcelona: Peninsula, 1999); La Siempre Fiel: Un Siglo de Relaciones Hispano-Cubanas, 1898-1998 (University of Madrid, 1999); and Cuba, the U.S. and the Helms-Burton Doctrine (University of Florida Press, 2000).

F. Charles Ruegg was born in San Mateo, California on 14 June 1912. Before joining Pan

American World Airways (Pan Am) in 1940 he spearheaded and managed a number of businesses involving construction, quarrying and sales.

His eleven (11) years of executive experience with Pan Am include positions as Junior Airport Manager for the Pacific Division and Assistant Airport Manager in Honolulu and Suva. In 1942, he was made Senior Representative in Lagos, Nigeria and then Fisherman’s Lake in Liberia where he oversaw the construction and operation of bases during the war years. As Ground Operations Superintendent in 1943, he oversaw the opening of 40 new Pan American stations. In 1946, he was assigned as the first Station Manager for LaGuardia Airport in New York.

Ruegg retired from Pan Am in 1951 due to a family illness. He moved back to California and continued to work in a managerial capacity for two other airlines. He was a senior executive for Allied Aviation Service Company in 1951.