Eduard Soler i Lecha

• @solerlecha

Eduard Soler i Lecha is a senior researcher at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) and coordinator of its geopolitics and security programme. He is a political scientist and holds a doctorate in International Relations. His areas of specialisation are the dynamics of cooperation and conflict in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East, prospective analysis and Spanish and European foreign policies. He has led research projects in these areas, such as MENARA (Horizon 2020), and he is currently part of the JOINT project, the Jean Monnet Atlantic 2.0 network, the R+D project “The Emergence of European Sovereignty in a World of Systemic Rivalry: Strategic Autonomy and Permissive Consensus (EUSOV)” and the Consolidated Research Group “Observatori de Política Exterior Europea [Observatory of European Foreign Policy]”. He also collaborates with several training programmes at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Ramon Llull-Blanquerna University, the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and the College of Europe in Bruges.