Ana Karla Perea Blazquez
Affiliated faculty, IBEI
Predoctoral Fellow, UAB

PhD candidate in the Politics, Policies and International Relations programme at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her thesis is focused on climate change adaptation planning and aid allocation in least developed countries. Ana Karla holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente in Mexico. Ana Karla has more than 10 years’ experience in environmental and climate change policy, and served as a negotiator for the Mexican Government in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Eduard Soler Lecha
Affiliated faculty, IBEI
Senior Research Fellow, CIDOB

Senior Research Fellow at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) since 2005. He is an affiliated faculty at IBEI and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is a political scientist and holds a PhD in International Relations from the UAB. He was a visiting fellow at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul and at the Center for European Political Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. From December 2009 to November 2010, he worked as an advisor to the General Directorate for the Mediterranean, the Maghreb and the Middle East of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He has worked on several European research projects, especially on issues related to European policies in the Mediterranean and the security cooperation agenda. He publishes regularly in Spanish and international magazines and in media such as the Spanish newspapers El Periódico de Catalunya, El País and La Vanguardia.

Ignasi Torrent
Affiliated faculty, IBEI
Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Humanities at University of Hertfordshire (London). He teaches International Institutions and Policy, International Relations Theory, Global Governance, United Nations: Peace and Security, Development and Peacebuilding, International Security and Conflict, among others. His previous academic engagements include research and teaching fellowships at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), University of Sierra Leone, the City University of New York and University of Westminster (London). His research interests are framed in the area of Critical Peace and Conflict Studies, the Anthropocene and new materialisms.

Marie Vandendriessche
Affiliated Professor, IBEI
Senior Researcher and Research Coordinator, EsadeGeo

Senior researcher and research coordinator at the EsadeGeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (Barcelona/Madrid). Her work focuses on the interface between energy and climate change, covering policy, global governance, and geopolitics. Her research has been published by the European University Institute’s Florence School of Regulation and the Brookings Institution’s Energy Security and Climate Initiative. At EsadeGeo, she has also contributed to other research lines, including quantitative research on international organizations’ organizational design. Marie holds a master's degree in International Relations from IBEI, focusing on international environmental and climate politics. Her doctoral research at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona focuses on the intersection of the global governance of energy and climate change.