Oriol Barba is Director of the MedCities network. He has over 10 years’ experience in international projects and initiatives related to urban development in the Mediterranean, and is author of several publications on the theme. He was seconded to the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean during its installation phase in Barcelona. Representing MedCities, he is a member of the Territorial Resilience to Climate Change Hub of the Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), the Water-Employment-Migration Task Force of the Union for the Mediterranean, and the Steering Committee of the Global Water Partnership – MED.