Roger Albinyana is director of the Mediterranean Regional Policies and Human Development department at the European Institute of the Mediterranean. He is also associate professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Barcelona where he teaches international economic policy. He holds a MA in Economic History from the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a BA in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and a BA in Business Administration and Management from the Open University of Catalonia. From 2013 to 2016, he served as secretary general for Foreign and EU Affairs of the Government of Catalonia. Prior to that, from 2010 to 2013 he served as advisor on private sector development at the Secretariat of Union for the Mediterranean.