Numerary Member and Deputy Secretary of the Governing Board
Social Sciences: PhD in Law
Date of admission: June 30, 2016
Admission speech: «Towards a New Law of Nations?»
Reply speech: Dr. Joan-Francesc Pont Clemente, PhD in Law
Outstanding career: Senator in the Spanish Parliament and expert in international relations, human rights, and global governance. His work combines academic research with parliamentary diplomacy and the promotion of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
Dr. SANTIAGO CASTELLÀ SURRIBAS
UNIVERSITY DEGREE
- Graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona (1992).
- Graduate in Political Science and Sociology from the National University of Distance Education (UNED) (1995).
- PhD in Law (Cum Laude) from the University of Barcelona (2002).
- Master’s Degree in Security, Peace and Defence from the General Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute (2002).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- His areas of priority interest focus on teaching Public International Law, European Union Law and International Relations, with special attention to the international protection of human rights and international development cooperation.
- Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Global Immigration Management at the URV Foundation (2002–2007).
- Dean of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) (2003–2006).
- Vice-Rector for International Relations of the URV (2006–2008).
- Vice-Rector for External Relations of the URV (2006–2010).
- Member of the Committee of Experts of the Observatory of the Catalan Language.
- President of the Language Policy Commission of the Vives Network of Universities (2006–2010).
- Director of the Catalonia External Action Plan Project, commissioned by the Deputy Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Catalonia (2008–2009).
- Director and Lecturer of the University Postgraduate Specialist Course in International Development Cooperation (2011–…).
- Director of the Seminars on International Humanitarian Law of the URV and of the International Humanitarian Law Centre of the Red Cross (2008–…).
- Director of the Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City Chair of the URV (2014–…) and Project Director of the Tarragona Smart Mediterranean City Foundation.
- Associate Professor in the area of Public International Law and International Relations at the Rovira i Virgili University.
- In 1992 he began with a Research and Teaching Training Grant in the Department of International Law and Economics at the University of Barcelona, and in 1995 he joined as an Assistant Professor at the Rovira i Virgili University.
