Building bridges, not walls: A peace approach to diplomacy and the global economy

Geographer specialized in urban development and policy issues, especially in territorial and social strategy definition. She regularly works as a researcher and consultant for international organizations and other European cities. Social Council of the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She directed the dialogues at the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona 2004.

Doctor of Medicine, Professor of Health Education at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Founder and director of Campus Excellence. President of the Institute of International Cooperation of the RAED. Executive Director of the Spanish office of the International Center for Migration, Health and Development, advisor to the Climate Change Reality Project led by Al Gore, strategic advisor to the BSC (Barcelona supercomputing Center). Author of numerous books and articles, renowned international lecturer, academic of the Academy of Sciences and Engineering of the Canary Islands and full academic of the Royal European Academy of Doctors.

Graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona (1992), Graduate in Political Science and Sociology from the National University of Distance Education (1995), Doctor in Law (with distinction “Cum Laude) from the University of Barcelona (2002), Master in Security, Peace and Defense from the General Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute (2002), University Professor in the area of Public International Law and International Relations at the Rovira i Virgili University, of which he is also an active researcher in the lines of International Protection of ethnic, national, linguistic and religious minorities and international environmental protection. Full Academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors and Secretary General of its Foundation.

Graduate in Business Studies, Graduate and Doctor in Law, Professor at the University of Barcelona since 1982, University and College Professor of Financial and Tax Law. He has published twenty-eight books in his speciality and also in other disciplines, as well as more than fifty articles in scientific journals, in addition to two hundred articles on historical, philosophical and political issues. Director of the UB-based inter-university research group Seminario de Derecho Tributario Empresarial (since 2008), of which he was deputy director between 1993 and 2008.

Co-President of IPPNW, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (Nobel Peace Prize in 1985) and member of the International Steering Group of ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Nobel Peace Prize in 2017).  He is a general practitioner, former director of health at the Costa Rican Ministry of Health and former official of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), where he worked in primary care and as a resident in gynaecology and obstetrics.