Javier Sánchez Cano
Javier Sánchez Cano is director of the Centre for Contemporary Studies. He has been director of European Union Policies in the Government of Catalonia and also in the European Centre for Regions from the European Institute of Public Administration. He was secretary general of the Ibero-American Centre for Strategic Urban Development (CIDEU). He holds a degree in Anglo-Germanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the same university, with the doctoral thesis “Non-central governments and their networks: analysis of their role as actors in globalization”. He has an extensive teaching career and has worked as a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the CIDOB Foundation, the UOC and the International University of Andalusia. As a researcher, his work focuses on international relations and regional and local governments, with a special emphasis on regional integration, global agendas and decentralized cooperation. He is a member of the Policy Forum on Development and a member of the Spanish Network for Development Studies. He is also vice-president of the United Nations Association in Spain.
