The scientific and organizing committee consists of :

• Laura Chaqués Bonafont, is a Professor of Political Science at the Universitat de Barcelona and a director of Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) since 2024. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Universitat de Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. With an extensive academic background, she has served as a visiting professor at esteemed institutions such as the University of Washington, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and King’s College London. She leads the research group “Quality of Democracy“. She has written several books, numerous book chapters, and articles published in prestigious academic journals such as Comparative Political Studies, The British Journal of Political Science, West European Politics, Political Communication, the Journal of Public Policy, and the European Journal of Political Research. Her research excellence has been recognized with various awards, including the ICREA Academia award. Currently, her primary research interest lies in the comparative analysis of agenda dynamics, with a specific focus on the roles of interest groups, political elites, and social media.
• Charles Roger is an Associate Professor and Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). His research explores the transformations occurring in our system of global governance and how these are reshaping our ability to address cross-border problems. Substantively, it has been concerned with the dynamics of formal, informal, and transnational institutions operating in the fields of climate change, international trade, global finance, and antitrust. Charles is the author of The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press, 2020) and a co-author of Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which was named runner-up for the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award in 2015. His research has also been published in a range of academic journals, including Global Environmental Politics, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Review of International Organisations. In addition to being a co-convenor of the Barcelona Workshop on Global Governance, Charles is a co-editor (with Prof. Maryam Deloffre) of the Frontiers of Global Governance book series published by McGill-Queens University Press. Finally, he has also worked with the United Nations and other organizations in various roles, including as a member of the UN High-Level Expert Group on Climate Change, Energy and Low-Carbon Development and as a contributing author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• Angel Saz-Carranza (Barcelona, 1976) is Director of ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics in addition to being Full Professor of the Department of Strategy and General Management and Visitng Professor at Georgetown University’s MCDonough School of Business. He earned a PhD in Public Management from ESADE as a Visiting Scholar at Wagner School of Public Service (New York University) where he spent three years. Previously he earned a Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College (University of London). A beneficiary of La Caixa and Fulbright scholarships, he was selected as “Best 40 under 40 MBA Professors” by Poets & Quants. His research has been published, among others, in the Journal of Public Administration and Theory, Public Administration Review, Global Policy, and Corporate Governance International Review. His interests are business-government relations, nonmarket strategy, intergovernmental organizations, and organizational networks.
• Marie Vandendriessche is a senior researcher and research coordinator at the EsadeGeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona/Madrid) and a teaching fellow at Esade’s Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability. Her work focuses on global governance complexity, institutional choice, and geopolitics, with a special interest in the interface between energy and climate change. Her research has been published by the European University Institute’s Florence School of Regulation, the Brookings Institution’s Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Global Policy, and the Journal for European Integration, among others. At EsadeGeo, she also manages and researches in the center’s European Commission-funded research projects, such as the Horizon 2020 projects ENGAGE (Envisioning a New Governance Architecture for a Global Europe), GLOBE (Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios) and MERID (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue). Marie holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), focusing on international environmental and climate politics. Her doctoral research at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona focuses on regime complex evolution and institutional choice.