Àngel Castiñeira
Àngel Castiñeira is professor at the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability from ESADE. He is also the director of the ESADE Center for Leadership, a centre for thought and applied research that acts as a forum for dialogue between organisations and participants who assume in a committed and responsible manner the challenges of governing a global and local world. Castiñeira holds a PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the University of Barcelona and his main fields of study are social and political philosophy, as well as geopolitical thought, applied ethics and values, changes in the social and cultural environment and democratic governance. He was the director of the Center for Contemporary Studies for six years (1998-2004). His most relevant publications are Catalunya com a projecte (2001), Societat civil i estat del benestar (2002), Catalunya, reptes ètics (2006) and Immigració a estats plurinacionals: el cas de Catalunya (2007).