juan luis manfredi sanchez

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez is Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor (2021-2024). He leads the Political Leadership and Public Governance Program, as well as various research activities and social debate. It has more than 150 alumni among members of the senior public management and other elected positions (Congress, Senate, Mayor's Office). Before joining Georgetown University, he has been a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, where he teaches Journalism and International Relations. He writes on public diplomacy and propaganda, international relations and diplomacy, communication, and technology, as well as political risk and the liberal order. He is the author of 16 books and more than 60 articles on these subjects. Academic director of the Observatory for Transformation of the Public Sector ESADE-PwC, Juan Luis is a member of the Scientific Council of the "Instituto Real Elcano" and he investigates international relations, technology, diplomacy and strategic communication. He was the principal investigator of the project "Public communication, transparency, accountability and participation in local governments". He has directed "Media Pluralism Monitor in Spain 2015", a project of the European Institute of Florence to measure the pluralism and diversity of the media and journalistic companies. He is the author of numerous books and articles, some of them the result of field work carried out at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Government of Spain. His latest book is "Corporate Diplomacy: the new managerial intelligence" (UOC: Barcelona, 2018). He is a member of the editorial board of Esglobal.com. He has been a finalist for the 2015 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award in Spain and he is a frequent contributor to Cinco Días, a business daily in Spain.