As Chairman, I am pleased to share several key Board updates, but first, I would like to extend a warm welcome to Dr. Marta Elvira as she joins our leadership team.

As we begin marking our 20th anniversary, I find myself reflecting on the Foundation’s steady and meaningful evolution. Over the past two decades, we have grown into a vital think tank focused on the human foundations of work and home. Our mission is not peripheral; it is increasingly central to the most pressing questions facing modern society. There is, quite simply, no more urgent or rewarding subject to be engaged in today.

Two Decades of International Impact:
For 20 years, we have consistently reaffirmed our commitment to research and dialogue that places the dignity of the person and the vitality and importance of the home at the heart of social renewal. Our achievements include:

• Global Presence: strengthening our international academic impact across multiple disciplines.
• High-Level Advocacy: participating in major global forums, including the United Nations, the UK Parliament, and Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires.
• Foundational Research: consistently demonstrating that the home is not a marginal concept—it is the bedrock of human development.

Our work serves as a reminder that policy, economics, and labor must ultimately serve the person, the family, and the community.

Looking Ahead
In the coming weeks, We will provide further details on the participants in the upcoming Expert Meetings in Barcelona (29–30 June), organised by HRF in collaboration with Harvard, UIC, ICWF, and STI. This gathering will focus on: the positive characteristics of engaged fatherhood in the current social context: how these can be supported in domestic, familial, social and work-based instruments and structures; and whether the care of the home is an essential contributor to fatherhood.

I can confirm that we have already established partnership with the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross as co-organisers for the 2027 Experts Meeting “The anthropological value of work and its impact on the home”.

We remain firmly committed to exploring how the home shapes the future of humanity, and I look forward to sharing this journey with you.

Sir Bryan Sanderson, CBE