Juan Luis Manfredi

Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez is Full Professor of Journalism & International Studies (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), and advisor in politics, business and geoeconomics. He was Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University (Washington DC, 2021-2024)His most recent book is “Urban Diplomacy. A Cosmopolitan Outlook”, Brill Research Perspectives in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (2021).

He has been the academic director of the Observatory for the Transformation of the Public Sector, on the ESADE Business School (Madrid campus). 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 cities, public diplomacy and propaganda, international relations and diplomacy, communication, and technology, as well as political risk and the liberal order.

As a professional journalist, he is op-ed contributor for Cinco Días, leading financial newspaper, and senior contributor to The Conversation, CMM Radio and Canal Sur Televisión. He has been a finalist for the El Ciervo-Enrique Ferrán Prize for Articles (2020) with the text “In Praise of Democratic Boredom” and the Citi Award for Journalistic Excellence (Spain, 2015) for the text “Hubs, axes of industry and knowledge in the XXI century”, published in the Foreign Economy Magazine (Summer, 69, 2015).

He has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Elcano Royal Institute (2014-2019), a think tank with which he collaborates in various publication and dissemination activities. He belongs to the Opinno World Expert Council and is a member of the editorial board of Esglobal.com, a leading journal of international journalism in Spanish, as well as other academic journals (Journal of Public Diplomacy; International Studies Magazine, Chile).

Selected Publications

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2022). “Vaccine (public) Diplomacy: Legitimacy Narratives in the Pandemic Age”, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 1-13.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2022). “Thinking About Latin American Public Diplomacy”, Latin American Policy, 13 (1), 6-19.

• Olga Kolotouchkina, Carmen Llorente and Juan Luis Manfredi (2022). “Smart cities, the digital divide, and people with disabilities”, Cities, 123, 103613.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez and Francisco Seoane (2021). “Climate Change Begins at Home: City Diplomacy in the Age of the Anthropocene”, in Manor, Ilan and Surowiec, Pavel, Public Diplomacy and Politics of Uncertainty, Palgrave.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2021). “Deglobalization and public diplomacy”, International Journal of Communication, 15, 22.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2021). “Urban Diplomacy. A Cosmopolitan Outlook”, Brill Research Perspectives in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy 3 (4), 1-90.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2021). “Diplomacia. Historia y presente”, Síntesis. 216 páginas.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez and Paul Hare (2021). “COVID, Deglobalization, and the Decline of Diplomacy: Could Tele-Diplomacy Revitalize Diplomacy’s Capacity to Promote Consensus?”, Global Policy, 12 (4), 574-576.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2021). “Political Economy of City Diplomacy”, Economic and Political Studies, 1-22.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez, Adriana Amado y Silvio Waisbord (2021). “Twitter presidencial ante la COVID-19: entre el populismo y la política pop”, Revista Comunicar, 66, 83-94.

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2020). “Diplomacy for the world to come”. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 15-4, 517-519.

• Roig, A., Sun-Wang, J.L. & Manfredi-Sánchez, JL. Barcelona’s science diplomacy: towards an ecosystem-driven internationalization strategy. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 7, 114 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00602-y

• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez (2020). Sanctuary Cities: What Global Migration Means for Local Governments. Soc. Sci., 9, 146. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9080146