Dr. José Ramón Calvo
José Ramón Calvo, President of the Medical Committee of the Cuídate+ section of the specialist portal 65ymás, corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Basque Country, and full member and President of the Institute forr International Cooperation of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (READ), has been appointed new Director of the Research Centre of the University of Fujairah, in the United Arab Emirates. The institution recognises his experience and leadership capacity. “Calvo will bring great value to the university, contributing to the development of effective human capital strategies that support our vision, mission and objectives,” the centre itself stated in the press release announcing his appointment.
With the challenge of becoming one of the country’s leading academic institutions, the University of Fujairah was formally established a year ago from a university college, setting out an ambitious strategic development plan supported by the government programme Vision 2031, in which the academic work will be a fundamental part. As 65ymás explains in a feature published on 9 April about Calvo’s appointment, the university is committed to training future leaders who will contribute effectively to sustainable development, guided by its core principle: “Students of today, leaders of tomorrow.”
As for the Emirate of Fujairah, the report by Pablo Recio continues, it occupies a strategic enclave whose importance has become clearly evident in light of the current armed conflict in the region, since it is the only emirate located outside the Strait of Hormuz and is therefore the natural outlet for most of the oil and gas produced by the Gulf countries when the area is subject to restrictions such as the present ones.
Although it is a smaller place than Dubai or Abu Dhabi, also part of the United Arab Emirates, it likewise offers a very interesting cultural and scientific scene, with advanced research centres, a philharmonic orchestra, a striking “musical road” that greets those entering the emirate with a fragment of the “Ode to Joy,” the House of Philosophy and the House of Chess.
Calvo was recently appointed International Strategic Adviser to the Regional Centre for Information Technology and Software Engineering, one of the pioneering institutions in social and technological innovation in the Arab world. This body is internationally recognised for its close links with multilateral organisations and is headquartered in Cairo. He had previously served as Strategic Adviser to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center–National Supercomputing Center, a public consortium made up of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Government of Catalonia and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, recognised for driving the different generations of the MareNostrum supercomputer.
