Bernabé Aldeguer Cerdá es Profesor Titular de Ciencia Política y de la Administración de la Universidad de Valencia (UV). Doctor sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad en Derecho (Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales) por la Universidad de Alicante (UA), premiada por Les Corts y dando como resultado dos monografías, en la editorial de les Corts, a través del libro El desempeño parlamentário de las Diputadas Autonòmicas Valencianas y mediante el libro Democracia Paritaria y Cuotas Electorales en la prestigiosa editorial Tirant lo Blanch.

Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración, galardonado con el Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura, el Certificado de Excelencia Académica (Conselleria de Educación de la Generalitat Valenciana) y la Mención Especial del Ministerio de Educación (Gobierno de España). Obtuvo el 1º Accésit del XIII Premio de Ensayo en Ciencias Sociales “Fermín Caballero” como resultado de un trabajo derivado de su Tesis Doctoral sobre las pautas de discriminación vertical y horizontal de las mujeres en los parlamentos.

Es titulado en el Máster en Gestión Pública y Liderazgo Político (UA) y ha realizado diferentes cursos de formación especializada, entre otros:“45th Essex Summer School of Social and Data Analysis” (University of Essex); Escuela de Métodos de Análisis Sociopolítico (USAL); Escuela de Verano del Ilustre Colegio Nacional de Doctores y Licenciados en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, “Winter School in Methods and Techniques” (European Consortium for Political Research – Universitat de Viena), así como el X Seminario Giménez Abad sobre el Parlamento (Senado de España). Ha resultado igualmente seleccionado por el CIS para participar en las ediciones quinta y séptima del “Summer Seminar on Sociological and Political Research” (Harvard University – Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) en cuya V edición (2012) presentó el trabajo descriptive and substantive representation: an approach on the parliamentary performance of women from an institutional perspective.

Es autor de diversos capítulos de libro en editoriales como Tecnos, Tirant lo Blanch, Dykinson, Universitas, Comares, Anthropos, entre otras, así como en Routledge, en el libro Parliamentary Committees in Comparative Perspective: New Trends and Challenges (London: Routledge). Autor, además, de más de medio centenar de artículos académicos en revistas científicas sobre temas como ética pública e integridad institucional, gobierno local, élites parlamentarias o élites de gobierno a partir de metodologías basadas en el análisis de redes (véase el último trabajo sobre Invisible Rulers: The ‘Latent Power Structure’in Two Spanish Governments (2004 and 2012 en la revista JCR Q1 Government and Opposition.

Fue seleccionado como investigador por la Conselleria de Educación de la Generalitat Valenciana (Beca para el apoyo a la formación del personal investigador –año 2010- y Programa VALi+d para personal investigador –año 2012-) y por el Ministerio de Educación del Gobierno de España (Beca Colaboración –año 2009- y Beca de Formación del Profesorado Universitario FPU –año 2013-).

Ha participado con la presentación de más de ochenta ponencias en congresos nacionales e internacionales de instituciones tales como la Asociación Española de Ciencia Política, la Federación Española de Sociología, la International Political Science Association, el European Consortium for Political Research o el Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo, entre otros seminarios, simposios y eventos científicos. Igualmente, ha ejercido la dirección y la organización de casi una veintena de Grupos de Trabajo en el las citadas instituciones científicas.

Ha sido profesor visitante de la Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia (Argentina) y en la Universidad Central del Ecuador (Quito), así como de la Universidad San Jorge (Zaragoza – España).

En la actualidad desarrolla su actividad investigadora en el Instituto Complutense de Ciencia de la Administración y el Observatorio Político Autonómico Valenciano de la Universidad de Valencia, institución de la que es profesor de ciencia política y de la administración. En la actualidad es, además, miembro de la Junta Directiva de la Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA).

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Carlos Garcia‐Rivero is full professor in Political Science at Valencia University, Spain, and Research Associate at the Centre for International and Comparative Politics, at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; previously, he was a lecturer at Burgos University and Saint Louis University and visiting professor or researcher at the Universities of Strathclyde, RANEPA, Bologna, La Sapienza or SciencesPo Lyon. He was awarded the prize to the best article prize (AECPA 2009) and the best paper presentation (AECPA 2021). He has also served as analyst for the Ministry of Defense in International Humanitarian Crisis Management and an Electoral Observer for the OSCE.

PABLO OÑATE’S SHORT BIO (pablo.onate@uv.es)

Pablo Oñate is full professor of Political Science at University of Valencia (starting 2007). He graduated in Law and got his PhD in Political Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1996).

He is the author, co-author and editor of a number of books (last one, Federalism, Devolution and Multilevel Government, 2018 -coedited with Guy Lachapelle), and the author or co-author of more than 90 national and international journal articles and book chapters, dealing with democracy, political parties, elections and electoral systems, political behavior, political representation, legislatures, political elites, etcetera. He has been visiting researcher at Georgetown University and George Washington University (USA), Oxford University, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur and Universidad de Veracruz (México), Universidad René Moreno (Bolivia), as well as in a number of universities in Spain.

He worked as an institutional consultant and an international electoral observer Bosnia Herzegovina, Myanmar and in several Latin-American countries, as well as academic advisor del Administration and Cost of Elections Project (ONU). He has also been institutional advisor in Spain (Ministry of Education, National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, Convenio Andrés Bello, Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development. He was academic director of the Fundación Ortega y Gasset-Marañón and its University Research Institute.

He participated in a large number of research projects (both national and international, being project leader in a number of them) and presented more than 150 papers in national and international scientific conferences. Currently, he participates in a European Union capacity and institutional building project in Latin America, and is the project leader of another one in Tunisia and South Mediterranean (each financed with over one million Euros).

He was the Secretary General of the Spanish Political Science Association (2005-2013), the President of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA) (2013-2019), and currently is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (since July 2018). He was the Academic Coordinator of the CIS-RCC Harvard University Summer Seminar on Sociological and Political Research (2015-2016-2017-2018).

Dr Clara PORTELA specialises in International Relations and teaches Political Science at the Law School of the University of Valencia, having previously served as a professor at Singapore Management University and as a research fellow with the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. Her research focuses on multilateral sanctions, arms control and EU foreign policy. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA from the Free University of Berlin. She is the recipient of the THESEUS Award for Promising Research on European Integration, and her article with M. Onderco on 'External Drivers of Differentiated Co-operation' in EU foreign policy was shortlisted for the 2024 Bernard Brodie Prize. Clara Portela was the inaugural Konrad Adenauer Visiting Scholar at Carleton University's Centre for European Studies in Ottawa, Canada. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, SciencesPo Grenoble, SciencesPo Lyon, SciencesPo Paris, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and the University of Innsbruck. She has consulted for the European Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, the Office of the Prime Minister of Finland, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan, and has advised the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the European Parliament as well as civil society organisations like Transparency International, Democracy Reporting, Civil Forum for Asset Recovery and Small Arms Survey. She has contributed to the training of diplomatic staff and international civil servants in the executive programmes offered by the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the School of Transnational Governance in Florence, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Gustavo Guerrero Diplomatic Institute of El Salvador and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam in Hanoi.  

Recent publications include: 

Portela, C./ Onderco, M. / Vignoli, V., Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly?, Contemporary Security Policy, online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2025.2551632

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Aid Sanctions and Hybrid Regimes, Journal of Development Studies, online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2481878

Palestini, S./ C. Portela, The Global South and the contestation of unilateral sanctions against Russia, Cooperation and Conflict, online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/DVHBMS3ZFWEMVTGEIDP6/full

Holesch, A./ C. Portela, Money talks? The effectiveness of sanctions in the Rule of Law conflict in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies (2025) 63(4), 1178-1196. http://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13693

Portela, C., The war over Ukraine and the transformation of EU governance, European Papers, 8(3), (2023), 1125-30, https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/system/files/pdf_version/EP_EF_2023_I_035_Clara_Portela_00706.pdf

Portela, C./ J.S. Mora-Sanguinetti, Sanctions effectiveness, development and regime type, World Development 172, (2023), https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305-750X(23)00188-2

Portela, C., Logiques des sanctions de l’Union européenne contre la Russie au sujet de l’Ukraine. Études Internationales, 54(2) (2023), 287–310.

Borzyskowski, I./ C. Portela, Global Governance from Below. Regional sanctions as drivers of UN sanctions, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(10) (2023), 1930-58, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027231153565

Portela, C./ A. Charron, The evolution of databases in the age of targeted sanctions, International Studies Review, 25(1), (2023), https://academic.oup.com/isr/article-abstract/25/1/viac061/6987069?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Onderco, M./ C. Portela, External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment, Contemporary Security Policy, 44(1) (2023), 150-75. [shortlisted for 2024 Bernard Brodie Prize], https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523260.2022.2146336?tab=permissions&scroll=top

Portela, C., Are EU GSP withdrawals and CFSP sanctions becoming alike?, European Foreign Affairs Review, 28 (2023), 35-52, https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/European+Foreign+Affairs+Review/28.Special%20%20[pre-publication]/EERR2023013

Charron, A./ C. Portela (eds.) Multilateral Sanctions Revisited, Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2022.

Portela, C./ JL. Romanet Perroux, UN Sanctions and Mediation in Libya: Synergy or obstruction?, Global Governance 28(2) (2022), 228-250. https://brill.com/view/journals/gg/28/2/article-p228_5.xml

Portela, C./ T. Van Laer, The design and impact of individual sanctions: Evidence from elites in Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe, Politics and Governance, 10(1) (2022), 26–35. https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4745

Portela, C., EU-Sanktionen gegen Russland: Ein Überblick über Evaluierungspraxis, Osteuropa 71 (10-12) (2022), 103-113.

Portela, C./ P. Pospieszna/ J. Skrzypczyńska/ D. Walentek, Consensus against all odds: Explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia, Journal of European Integration, 43(6) (2021), 683-99. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07036337.2020.1803854

Dr Marco Guglielmo is currently Maria Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Valencia after serving as a Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway University of London. Marco’s research analyses the evolutions of progressive politics and the politics of the digital transition, focusing on how parties are boosting or hampering the transition to alternative models of digitalisation. Marco’s first book is The Left and Digital Politics. Political Parties from Platform Neoliberalism to Platform Socialism (University of Westminster Press, in press). At the University of Valencia, Marco is part of the research group DIGIPOL, digitalization and politics.