José Campos Trujillo leads a busy life as General Secretary of the Education Federation of the chief education union in Spain (CCOO). Apart from his responsibilities at national level on various state, education and training and university boards, this philosophy graduate is also on the Executive Board of Education International (EI), “the voice of the teachers and other education employees across the globe”. A global federation, EI has 30 million members of some 400 unions in over 170 countries and is UNESCO’s partner every World Teachers’ Day, 5 October.