Jordi Bacaria Colom

Professor Emeritus at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) since 2022. Member of the Board of Trustees of CIDOB. Director of the journal "Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica", published in Mexico. Former Professor of Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was Director of CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) between June 2013 and August 2018. He was Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the UAB (1986-1988) and Director of the Institute of European Studies (1988-1992; 1994-2000) at the UAB. From 2000 to 2009, he coordinated the PhD Programme in International Relations and European Integration at the UAB. From 2000 to 2013, he was co-director of the Institute for European Integration Studies in Mexico, an institution funded by the European Commission and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. For his research merits he has received positive evaluation of six-year period from the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia (AQU Catalunya) and the CNEAI.