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SJ, Provincial of Spain. He was born in Barcelona in 1974 and after attending EGB, BUP and COU at the Colegio Sant Ignasi de Sarrià, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Zaragoza in 1993. Later he studied Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona and did his teaching at the Claver School in Raimat (Lleida). He studied Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia and at the Institute of Fundamental Theology of Sant Cugat del Vallès, where he did a degree in Fundamental Theology on Ignatian Pedagogy, was ordained priest in 2006 and, since 2007, after finishing his studies, he joined the mission of the Society of Jesus. Between 2007 and 2011 he was assigned to the Professional Technical School of El Clot (Barcelona). His formation was completed with the third probation, which he did in Cape Coast (Ghana) between January and June 2012. That same year he spent a few months collaborating with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Yei (South Sudan). Upon his return, he was appointed province consultant for the Tarragona Province, and began working as vocation promoter for the Province of Spain, a position he held for eight years, combining it first with the pastoral direction of the Fundació Jesuïtes Educació and then, stationed in Madrid since 2017, with the coordination of the pre-novitiate team of the Province of Spain.

Since 2014, when the Jesuit provinces were united into one, he became consultor of the Province of Spain, a responsibility he has held until now. In 2020 the Provincial appointed him Delegate of the Apostolic Platform of the Society of Jesus in Catalonia, a task he has carried out in the last two years.His artistic facet is well known, with special sensitivity to pastoral ministry through music, which has led him to participate in various Christian music groups and initiate musical production projects. Perhaps the best known of these at present is the Jesuitas Acústico group.

In the Provincial Congregation, in February 2022, Enric Puiggròs was elected Procurator, so he will participate in the next Congregation of Procurators of the Society of Jesus that will take place in Loyola from next May 15 and brings together representatives of all the provinces and regions of the Society of Jesus in the world.on Saturday, June 17, 2023, he was appointed new Provincial of Spain of the Society of Jesus.

PA Loyola delegate and director of the Arrupe etxea Foundation. He was born in Tudela in 1964, a former student of the San Francisco Javier School. After studying psychology for three years at Comillas University (Madrid), he joined the Society of Jesus in 1986. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Deusto (1990) and in Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Boston, 1998). Ordained priest in Tudela in 1997. During his first years of mission in the Society of Jesus he was assigned to education in the schools of Indautxu and Durango. From 2004 to 2006 he studied a Master in Clinical Psychology at Fundació Vidal i Barraquer (Barcelona) and from 2006 he dedicated part of his mission to psychological and spiritual accompaniment. He combines this work with the direction of the Loyola Center of Bilbao and Vitoria and Arrupe etxea from 2006 to 2019. In 2015 he was appointed delegate of the PAL Araba-Bizkaia. In 2019 he is appointed delegate of the PA Ebro and director of the Pignatelli Center in Zaragoza. From January 2023 to August 2024 he is Rector of the Sanctuary of Javier (Navarra) and in September 2024 he assumes the position of Delegate of the PA Loyola and director of Arrupe etxea.

Delegate of the Social Apostolate Sector of the Province of Spain of the Society of Jesus. He has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of a dozen boards of social institutions and the council of the Jesuit Service for Refugees in Europe. He has previously held responsibilities in international cooperation organizations and networks. He has been Executive Director of the Entreculturas - Fe y Alegría Foundation (from 2000 to September 2016); Member of the coordinating team of the International Federation of Fe y Alegría and responsible for its sustainability and institutional development axis; Responsible for the area of ​​education for development, awareness, communication and advocacy at Manos Unidas between 1995 and 2000. President of the NGDO Coordinator of Spain (1995 to 98); Member of Institutional Relations of its Board of Directors (1998–2000); President of the Federation of NGOs of the Community of Madrid (2001-2003); president of the Commission for monitoring the Code of Conduct of the Spanish ONGD Coordinator (2001-07). He has participated as a member of the Development Cooperation Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representing NGOs in two stages (1995-2000 and 2004-2016).

Doctor in Philosophy, she is a Full Professor of Ethics at the University of Deusto.

Member of the Ethics Classroom Commission of this same University, he is part of the Ethics in Organizations research team.

JRS Deputy Director at the JRS International Office in Rome. He was the General Director of EGIBIDE, a Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training educational center in Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is an industrial engineer from the University of Navarra (1991), MBA from the School of Economics and Business Sciences of the University of Deusto (2002) and Master in secondary education from UNIR (2015). He worked for ten years in various technical and management positions in private companies, with special dedication to quality areas. He was director of ALBOAN from 2005 to 2015. He is part of the board of trustees of the EDE, Entreculturas foundations and the board of directors of JRS international.

He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Zaragoza in 1988, after finishing his degree in Philosophy at the University of Navarra. Ordained priest in Tudela (Navarra) in 1996. And he completed his Theology studies that began at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome in 2000, with the defense of his doctoral thesis in Biblical Theology. Between 2000 and 2017, he taught at the University of Deusto, combining management responsibilities as Dean of the Faculty of Theology or Vice-Rector of the University Community and Vice-Rector of the Donostia/San Sebastián Campus. Director of the Ignacio Ellacuría Social Center during the years 2020 and 2023. Delegate of the Loyola Apostolic Platform from 2017 to the present.

Jenny Cafiso is currently the Executive Director of Canadian Jesuits International, based in Toronto, Canada and assistant to the Provincial for international apostolates. From 1995 to 2003, she served as Program Coordinator at the International Office of the Jesuit Refugee Service based in Rome. She has also worked for 10 years as Education Coordinator at the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace in Toronto. He worked for two years in Peru with the leadership training team at TAREA, a popular education center that works in marginal neighborhoods in Lima. His training has been developed at the University of York, Master in Political Science, Master in Humanitarian Aid from the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and Degree in Sociology from the University of Toronto (Ontario-Canada).

Graduated in Biology from the University of Navarra, she has always been linked to the educational world, as a teacher in the area of ​​science and in multiple management and leadership tasks. 
She has been Director of the San Ignacio de los Jesuitas School in San Sebastián from 2009 to 2018, a center of which she has been a part since 1998, and Coordinator of the Jesuit schools in the Northern zone of EDUCSI from 2019 to 2022. 
She is currently responsible for secondary pedagogical innovation at the Jesuit school of San Sebastián and professor of the Master of Ignatian Pedagogy, specifically the subject "Ignatian Leadership for the Transformation of Educational Centers of the 21st Century"
 

Director of Centro de Estudios Cristianismi i Justícia. He was the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Europe. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1983 and participated in 2008 in the 35th General Congregation, which elected Father General Adolfo Nicolás. He studied Economics and Business Administration (ICADE) in Madrid, from where he was assigned to Malawi to develop his teaching period with refugees from Mozambique. He has been closely linked to Valladolid, where he has taught for 9 years at INEA (School of Agricultural Engineering).

Management Board Advisor at ZABALA Innovation Consulting. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and has developed a professional career in the company, linked to strategy and promotion/management of new technology-based businesses, initially as a strategic consultant and then as an executive in global corporations in the energy and information technology sectors. (Accenture, Iberdrola, EDP/Naturgas, Socintec/Indra, Ibermática). Between 2012 and 2018 he was Dean of Deusto Business School, and member of the Board of Directors of the Basque Institute of Competitiveness. Currently, he continues to teach several subjects in the field of Economics and Innovation Management in Bachelor's, Master's and Executive Education programs.

Graduate in Humanities-Communication from the University of Deusto.

Graduate in History from the University of Deusto.

Master in Business Innovation- Deusto Business School.

Master in Research, Consulting and Social Innovation at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto.

More than 30 years working in the media in different areas such as programs, commercial and direction-management.

Director of Radio Bilbao. Regional Director Cadena SER in Euskadi.

General Director of Orkestra and Professor of Economics at the University of Deusto. She is a recognized expert in the area of ​​competitiveness and territorial strategy, clusters and networks, and policy analysis and evaluation, topics on which she has published numerous books and articles in high-impact national and international specialized journals. From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 program in the Societal Challenge 6 'Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies' and in the Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation challenge.

Religious of the Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus (Jesuitines), of Ignatian spirituality, dedicated to education. She worked as an administrative official in the Ministry of Information and Tourism, specifically in the General Directorate of Cinema and Theater, until she joined the Congregation. He studied Theology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca and later studied Philosophy and Letters in Valladolid. At the Salesian University of Rome, he obtained his degree in Educational Sciences with a specialization in youth ministry and catechetics. He lived for 14 years in Buenos Aires, where he was part of the founding team of Fe y Alegría Argentina. For 11 years, he coordinated a school at Fe y Alegría Roma that served migrants from Latin America, allowing them to study while working. For a period of 6 years, from 2014 to 2020, she collaborated as a volunteer at Entreculturas in Madrid. There, he coordinated the Spirituality Commission and led the direction of annual Spiritual Exercises. Currently, he resides in Rome in the General Curia of his congregation. She participated in the Synod on “Faith, young people and vocational discernment” in 2018 and in the “Special Synod of the Amazon” in 2019. In 2019, Pope Francis appointed her as a consultant to the General Secretariat of the Synod. He is an active member of two commissions of the four that contribute to this process: Spirituality and Communication. In addition, in April 2022, he received the appointment as a member of the Vatican Dicastery of Education and Culture.

María del Carmen de la Fuente Pérez (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1975) es directora de la Fundació Migra Studium (Barcelona) y ha coordinado el equipo de formación del Sector Social en la Provincia de España. Licenciada en Sociología por la Universidad de Barcelona, ha realizado diversos programas de formación especializados en el ámbito del tercer sector: Programa de dirección y gestión de ONG; Programa de valores, compromiso y liderazgo; y Programa de liderazgo e innovación social (ESADE, Barcelona).  

Igualmente, María del Carmen de la Fuente tiene un recorrido amplio y contrastado en labores de coordinación de las entidades del sector social en la PAT de Catalunya, así como un largo camino en ámbitos de formación, de pastoral, de acompañamiento y espiritualidad ignaciana.

Después de desarrollar un trabajo intenso durante más de ocho años en una consultoría especializada en organizaciones sociales y captación de fondos en Barcelona (Projecció Mecenazgo Social), se incorporó al sector social en 2006 como directora de la Fundació Privada La Vinya (L’Hospitalet de Llobregat), cargo que ostentó durante diez años.