Victòria Alsina
Victòria Alsina is the Minister of Foreign Action and Open Government of Catalonia. She holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She also holds an MPA from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and an M.A. in Public Leadership from ESADE Business School. She has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, Europe’s most prestigious postdoctoral fellowship. She was Industry Associate Professor and Academic Director at the New York University Center for Urban Science and Progress, Associated Faculty at the Technology, Culture and Society Department, and Senior Fellow at The Governance Lab (The GovLab). She also worked at the Harvard Kennedy School as an Associate at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is a life member of the Senior Common Room at the Harvard Lowell House. Previously, she has been the Head of the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the United States of America and Canada. She has led the public-private partnership task force at the World Economic Forum (G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance). She also co-chaired the Consultation and Outreach Group at the Council of Europe Artificial Intelligence Committee, and coordinated the post-Covid-19 strategy promoted by the Government of Catalonia.