A geographer and cultural manager, he is coordinator of the cultural commission of Agenda 21 for Culture. He is a founder-member of the European Laboratory for Cultural Cooperation and was a member of the European Jury for the European Capital of Culture for 2010, 2011 and 2013. He also teaches Cultural Management and Policy at the Open University of Catalonia and has published, among other works “Cultural Policies, Human Development and Institutional Innovation: or Why we Need an Agenda 21 for Culture” (UNESCO Observatory E-Journal, 2008) and On Citizen Participation in Local Cultural Policy Development for European cities (European Cultural Foundation, 2007).