Trustees & Board of Directors

The Advisory Committee will be formed by professionals of recognized prestige and knowledge  in each of the areas in which the Foundation is acting.  It will not have any legal power nor, responsibilities, and its function will be to give advice to the Board of Trustees about specific issues. The length of the mandate will be four years. The post is not remunerated.

Alfonso Pinedo
Retired Doctor and Medical School Professor of Malaga University

Emilio Alba
Head of Oncology of Málaga University Chief of Medical Oncology Department of Hospital Regional Universitario y Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, de Malaga

Curro Herrera Gaona
Journalist and businessman.
Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Wales.
Executive MBA Chamber of Commerce.
AMP Instituto de Empresa.

Antonio Banderas

Actor, Film Director and charity supporter in Malaga. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Malaga and the Dickinson College University of Pennsylvania. Advisor for the Cervantes Institute in New York and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. President of the “Lágrimas y Favores” Foundation, created in 2010 with the aim of supporting the University of Malaga and Cudeca Cancer Care Hospice.

Domi del Postigo

Esther Arroyo

Actress and TV presenter.

She has been collaborating with the Cudeca Hospice Foundation, in one way or another, since February 2022. As an example of this, she has lent herself to be the image of our charity shops, shares and collaborates in all our events, and has made promotional videos about: crowdfunding, Cudeca Walkathon, regular donor campaign, “La magia de la vida” event, among others, to encourage citizen participation. In the same way, she is always willing to mobilise others for Cudeca’s mission.

Remedios Cervantes

Actress, TV presenter and model. She collaborates actively as a volunteer and as a media professional with Cudeca Hospice since 2009, through numerous fundraising charity events, television and social networks.

Examples of this are Cudeca´s Gala Dinners, the Cudeca Charity Shops, Sunflower Campaign, Become a Benefactor Campaign and Corporate Cultural & Sporting Events.

Chucho Valdés

Born in Quivicán (Cuba), Chucho is considered one of the best pianists in the world, having won to date eight Grammy awards: five Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy. In 2012 he was proclaimed by the New York Times as “the Dean of Latin Jazz.” In addition, he is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, a Goodwill Ambassador of FAO for the UN, and has numerous doctorates and awards worldwide.

Chucho actively supports Cudeca Hospice since 2007, when he participated as a guest artist in the first charity concert performed by his father, the great Bebo Valdés. Since then, Chucho has helped Cudeca Hospice on countless occasions donating his music to aid our “special kind of caring”.

María del Carmen Campos Palero