Senior Research Fellow Associate at CIDOB and Deputy Director at the Dialogue Advisory Group (DAG), an organization that mediates and facilitates political dialogue in countries in conflict. Graduated in International Politics from the University of Virginia; Master's in International Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has previously worked as a Foreign Policy adviser in the Spanish Prime Minister's office, in Spanish think tanks FRIDE and CITpax, and the UN Department of Political Affairs, among others. He has also served as a long and short-term electoral observer with the UN, EU and OSCE, and as a consultant to the UN Mediation Support Unit.