The need for a truly comprehensive education was the central theme at the opening of the Third International Congress on Integral Formation, held December 9th, 2024. Daniel Sada Castaño, rector of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV), participated in the inauguration.
The congress, hosted by UFV, featured Fernando Viñado Oteo, the university’s Vice-Rector for Students and Training, alongside Castaño. The event focused on education, responsibility, and transformation, according to UFV’s website.
Daniel Sada Castaño has served as rector of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria since September 2003. He is also a professor of Professional Ethics at the university, a position he has held since 1997. Castaño holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, earned in 1987, and a doctorate in Law from the CEU San Pablo University, completed in 2003. His doctoral thesis, “Gilbert Keith Chesterton and English Distributism in the First Third of the Twentieth Century,” was published as a book in 2005.
In addition to his role at UFV, Castaño is a professor of “Citizen Participation and the Third Sector before Globalization” in the Master of Political Action and Citizen Participation at the Madrid Bar Association. He also teaches in the “Master of Applied Political Studies” offered by the International Foundation for Administration and Public Policies.
Castaño was involved in the founding of the IUVE Association in 1987, serving as its President until 1995. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 2004.
