Rafael Vilasanjuan

Journalist, graduate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He is currently director of ISGlobal's Department of Analysis and Global Development since March 2011. He was deputy director of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) from 2006 to 2011. He has worked for more than 12 years with Doctors Without Borders (MSF), first as director of Communication, in 1995, and later as general director of the Spanish section of MSF. In 1999, when the organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he was appointed Secretary General of MSF International until 2005. During this period, he worked in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, the Chechen Republic, Somalia, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Colombia. He is currently a member of the Open Democracy advisory committee and a member of the IFIT (Insitute for Integrated Transitions) Advisory Council, among others. He was chair of the GAVI (Global Alliance of Vaccines Immunization) Civil Society Steering Committee from 2017 to 2019, as well as a member of this committee from 2016 to 2017. Since 2020 he is an alternate member of the GAVI Board of Trustees, representing civil society organizations . He writes a weekly opinion column on international affairs in El Periódico and collaborates weekly as an international affairs analyst in the information spaces of Cadena SER.