JOAN ROMERO GONZÁLEZ

BRIEF PERSONAL CURRICULUM VITAE

Emeritus Professor of Human Geography.

Extraordinary Degree Award (1977) and Extraordinary Doctorate Award (1983).

He has been a lecturer at the Universitat de València since he began his teaching responsibilities in 1980. Since then he has taught on the degrees of Geography, History, Political Science and Administration, and Journalism. He has also been Visiting Scholar at the School of Geography at the University of Leeds during the 1991-1992 academic year.

He currently teaches Geopolitics, globalisation and the national question on the Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Administration at the University of Valencia. He also teaches on the Master's Degree in Geography, Techniques for the Management of the Environment and Territory, as well as on the Master's Degree in New Journalism, Political Communication and the Knowledge Society at the same university.

In recent years he has focused his teaching and research activity in the field of Political Geography, Public Policy, State Structure and new forms of Territorial Governance in Spain and Europe.

In the field of teaching, he has devoted special attention to the publication of university texts such as Geografía Humana. Procesos riesgos e incertidumbres en un mundo globalizado (2004) (2007 second edition), Las otras geografías (2006 and 2012) and Geografía Humana de España (2017). His most recent publications include La secesión de los ricos, in collaboration with Antonio Ariño (2016) and the coordination of Geografía del despilfarro en España (2019). He has recently edited, together with Professor Jorge Olcina, Cambio climático en el Mediterráneo. Procesos, riesgos y políticas (2022). His most recent publication is Metrópolis sin Gobierno. La anomalía española en Europa (2023), in which he is co-author of the chapter on the Valencian Community and of the general conclusions.

In his research activity he is the author or editor of 30 books and almost a hundred articles and book chapters and the director of a dozen doctoral theses. He has been principal investigator and Coordinator of the Research Project financed by FEDER and the Ministry of Education and Science (2002-2005) Estrategias de Cooperación Territorial en España, in which fifty-four researchers from fourteen Spanish universities have participated. He has been a member of the Spanish team responsible for the ESPON project. From 2006 to September 2007 he was a member of the Commission of experts appointed by the Spanish Minister of Public Administrations to prepare a Diagnosis and proposals for the reform of the General State Administration. He has participated as an expert in the process of elaboration and discussion of the Territorial Strategy of Navarra, the Territorial Strategy of the Valencian Community and the Territorial Strategy of Castilla-La Mancha.

His research activity is focused on issues related to territorial governance and the territorial organisation of the State. In recent years he has focused his interest on metropolitan governance in Spain and Europe. She has coordinated a research project on the Geography of waste in Spain and has participated in the international project Métropol coordinated by Professor Nacima Baron (Université Paris-Est Marne-la Vallé). He is currently part, as CI, of the coordinated national project Metropolitan Governance in Spain: institutionalisation and models. National R&D Plan project METROGOV (PID2019-106931GA-100).

It has been accredited for six teaching posts and five research posts.

In the field of management responsibilities related to education and science:

He is a member of the Cátedra Alfons Cucó de Reflexión Política Europea at the Universitat de València and the Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives at the Universitat de València.

He is academic director of the Tirant lo Blanch Humanidades series.

He was director of the Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Local (University of Valencia) from September 2005 to September 2008.

From 2006 to 2021 he has been director of the Desarrollo Territorial series of Publicacions de la Universitat de València.

From July 2019 to December 2021 he has been director of the Chair Prospect Comunitat Valenciana 2030, sponsored by the Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Universitat de València.

He has paid particular attention to transfer and high dissemination, giving dozens of lectures and publishing regularly in the media on aspects related to his speciality.

He has also been Director General of Universities of the Generalitat Valenciana (1983), Director of the Valencia branch of the UIMP (1990 and 1991), Technical Secretary General of the Ministry of Education and Science between 1985 and 1987, Minister of Education and Science of the Generalitat Valenciana between 1993 and 1995.