Team

The scientific and organizing committee consists of :

  • Jacint Jordana (Granollers, 1962) is professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He has a PhD in Economics (Universitat de Barcelona, 1992). He has been visiting fellow at the Copenhagen Business School, Australian National University, Wissenschafts Zentrum Berlin, University of California (San Diego) and Konstanz University. From 2005 to 2010 he was co-chair (together with David Levi-Faur) of the ECPR standing group on Regulatory Governance. Currently, he is director of the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He is also member of the Scientific Advisory Council of Barcelona City Council, as well as member of the board of trustees of the Center for International Studies and Documentation in Barcelona (CIDOB). His main research area is focused on the analysis of public policies, with special emphasis being laid on regulatory policy and regulatory governance.
  • Charles Roger is an Assistant Professor and Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), and a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute (EUI). He is the author of The Origins of Informality: Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and Why It Matters (OUP 2020). 
  • Angel Saz-Carranza (Barcelona, 1976) is Director of ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics in addition to being Associate 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). Her work focuses on global governance and geopolitics, with a special interest in the interface between energy and climate change, and her research has been published at the European University Institute and the Brookings Institution. She is or has been involved in Horizon 2020 projects such as GLOBE (Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios), MERID (Middle East Research and Innovation Dialogue), and ENGAGE (Envisioning a New Governance Architecture for a Global Europe). She is also affiliated faculty at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Her doctoral research at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona focuses on regime complex evolution and institutional choice, particularly in the fields of energy and climate change.