Who We Are:
Gender Equality Committee
At EULAS, we believe that academic excellence and meaningful international collaboration must go hand-in-hand with gender equality, diversity and inclusion. These values are not side elements of our network, they are fundamental to our design, our practices, and our impact.
To ensure gender perspectives are fully integrated across the project, a dedicated Gender Equality Committee (GEC) has been established. Formed during the inaugural Kick-Off Meeting, the GEC serves as an advisory and technical body to support all partners in embedding gender-sensitive approaches throughout their research, teaching, events, and institutional activities.
Andrea C. Bianculli
(IBEI – Network Coordinator)
Andrea C. Bianculli is an Associate Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). Her research explores the intersections of governance, regulation, and development from a comparative, regional, and multilevel perspective, with a particular focus on Latin America and Europe.
Previously, she was an Assistant Professor and Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellow at IBEI and held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Research College The Transformative Power of Europe at Freie Universität Berlin. She also worked as a researcher at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Argentina.
Andrea is the author of Negotiating Trade Liberalization in Argentina and Chile: When Policy Creates Politics (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America: A Space for Social Citizenship? (Palgrave, 2016, with Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann) and Accountability and Regulatory Governance: Audiences, Controls, and Responsibilities in the Politics of Regulation (Palgrave, 2015, with Xavier Fernández-i-Marín and Jacint Jordana). Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including Administration & Society, Global Public Health, Global Social Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Politics and Governance, and Regulation & Governance.
She currently leads the project Rethinking the Fundamentals of Regions and Interregionalism: The European Union and Latin America through the Lenses of Regional Regulatory Governance (Reg-EULAC), examining the evolving dynamics of regional governance between the EU and Latin America.
She is currently the Project Coordinator of the LAC-EU doctoral network, ‘Understanding Latin American Challenges in the 21st Century’.
Jacint Jordana
(IBEI – Network Coordinator)
Jacint Jordana is a Professor of Political Science and Administration at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and an ICREA Academia researcher. From 2004 to 2024, he served as Director of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and currently holds the position of President.
In addition to his roles at IBEI, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Barcelona City Council, an Associate Researcher at the Sciences Po Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB).
His research focuses on comparative public policies from a multilevel perspective, with a particular emphasis on regulatory policies and their specialized institutions. His recent publications include Policy Analysis in Spain (Policy Press, 2022), co-edited with Laura Chaqués-Bonafont; Linguistic Claims and Political Conflicts (Routledge, 2021), co-authored with Andrea Bianculli and Mónica Ferrín; and Barcelona, Madrid y el Estado (Catarata, 2019).
Previously, he served as the academic coordinator of the European project GLOBE (Horizon 2020), which examined emerging trends and scenarios in global governance and the role of the European Union. He is currently the Network Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Network, EU-VALUES.
Adam Holesch
(EULAS Network Project Manager)
Adam Holesch is the Network Manager of the Jean Monnet Network, EU-VALUES, at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). His research focuses on European politics through the lens of multilevel governance, with particular attention to democratic backsliding, regionalism, and global governance.
He has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, Central European University (CEU) in Budapest/Vienna, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
His work has been published in leading academic journals, including West European Politics, Journal of European Integration, Territory, Politics and Governance, Acta Politica, East European Politics, and Global Governance.
He is the Project Coordinator for the Network on Europe-Africa Relations - Education and Research (NEAR-ER). He is also a researcher and key contact person for the EU Research and Education Network on Europe in the World (EU-RENEW) and the EU-VALUES project, as well as a coordinator and researcher for Bridging the Gaps in Evidence, Regulation and Impact of Anti Corruption Policies (BRIDGEGAP).
Henri Billard
(Université de Poitiers - Network Member)
Joaquin Henri Billard is a Lecturer at the University of Poitiers and a member of the CRLA-Archivos team (ITEM, UMR 8132 of CNRS/ENS/University of Poitiers). His research combines historical, sociological, and literary perspectives to explore Latin American societal transformations in the 1990s and 2000s, focusing on democratic transitions, legal and institutional reforms, neoliberal policies, and the emergence of new cultural and aesthetic movements in the context of globalization.
At the University of Poitiers, he plays an active role in academic leadership and international collaboration. He is responsible for developing international research projects within the CRLA-Archivos team and represents the laboratory at the Institute of the Americas (IDA). Additionally, he serves as a member of the Scientific Council of the UFR of Letters and Languages and Vice-President of the Scientific Expertise Commission for Romance and Other Languages.
In the field of education, he coordinates Spanish teaching for the Bachelor's program in Applied Foreign Languages (LEA) and the Professional Master’s program in Trilingual Negotiation in International Trade (NTCI). He also oversees ERASMUS exchanges with Spain and partnerships beyond Europe, particularly in Chile.
Beyond academia, he has contributed to educational assessment, serving as President of the BAC Jury for the South American zone in 2016 and 2017.
For more details, visit his profile on the ITEM website.
Nicole Roberts
(Director, Centre for Language Learning (CLL) / The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine)
Dr. Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, and the Director of the Centre for Language Learning (CLL). With over a decade of experience in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, her research focuses on Afro-Hispanic literature, Hispanic poetry, Caribbean women writers, and issues of race and ethnicity in the Hispanic Caribbean. Additionally, she explores innovation in foreign language learning, particularly in reading and writing pedagogy.
Her work delves into race thinking and identity in the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean, with a particular emphasis on Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the literary contributions of Afro-Hispanic women writers. She is currently engaged in two book-length studies that further expand on these themes.
A global scholar, Dr. Roberts has lived, studied and worked in many countries, from Canada to the UK to Spain, before returning to her home country, Trinidad and Tobago. Her international experiences have deeply shaped her academic perspective and commitment to cross-cultural understanding in both literature and language education.
She is an active member of several academic organizations, including the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), and the Modern Languages Association (MLA).