Work team
Person(s) in charge of Security and World Politics team
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- Laia MESTRES - Programme Researcher
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Analyst in the CIDOB Foundation's Presidential Cabinet. A graduate in Political Science and Administration from Pompeu Fabra University, she is currently writing her doctoral thesis on bilateralism as a power strategy within the European Union, through the case study of Spain's relations with the EU's larger states. She is a member of the Observatory of European Foreign Policy and a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main areas of interest are Spain's foreign policy and the European Union's security and defence policies. She is currently coordinating the Spain-France Civil Dialogue Forum, as part of her work within the Presidential Cabinet.
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- Francis GHILÈS - Senior Researcher
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Specialises in security, financial and energy trends in Europe and the Western Mediterranean. He has written on international capital markets for Euromoney and the Financial Times. He was the FT's North Africa Correspondent from 1981 to 1995 during which time he wrote and lectured extensively on energy security in Europe (Royal College of Defence, Chatham House and Ditchley Park, Ministère de la Défense), the US (Columbia, UCLA, Pentagon and World Bank), North Africa, Israel and Japan. He set up the Mediterranean Gas Markets conference in 1991. He will be analysing emerging trends in gas and linking them with Spanish, European and US policy priorities. Francis Ghilès is also a freelancer for newspapers including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais and La Vanguardia. He is a frequent commentator in the broadcasting media, notably the BBC World Service. He has acted as adviser to western governments (UK, France and the US) and to major European, American and Japanese corporations working in North Africa. In 2009, he helped coordinate and write the Maghreb Regional and Global Integration: A Dream to be Fulfilled report for the Peterson Institute in Washington DC (www.petersoninstitute.org). He has been awarded advanced degrees from St Antony's College, Oxford and the University of Keele. He graduated with distrinction from Sciences Po Grenoble.
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- Francesc FÀBREGUES - CIDOB International Yearbook coordinator
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Coordinator of the CIDOB International Yearbook and the Immigration in Spain Yearbook. Master's in International Relations from the CIDOB Foundation; his dissertation focused on human rights in the agreements between the EU and Turkey. Graduated in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, his main areas of interest are: Spain's foreign relations, Euro-Mediterranean relations and Turkey's progress toward becoming an EU member, analysis of international conflicts and the United Nations system. He has participated in international missions as an electoral observer, and has acted as adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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- Agnieszka NOWAK - Associated Researcher
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She holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. In addition to her PhD, Dr Nowak holds a Master’s (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) in International Public Law and Int. Organizations from the University Paris I–Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Master’s in Journalism from the Institute of Political Science and Journalism, University of Poznan, Poland. She previously worked at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris where she directed a research project on EU civilian crisis management. Dr Nowak has also been associated with the European Law Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her main areas of research are: the evolution of the Collective Security and Peacekeeping System in the post-Cold War period, the role of regional actors in conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict situations, institutional developments and legal framework of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU involvement in crisis management (particularly civilian crisis management) and the external dimension of the EU’s Justice and Home Affairs.
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