Manuel Lucena Giraldo

Manuel Lucena-Giraldo is Research Scientist in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, and Adjunct Professor in IE Business School/IE University. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Lecturer BOSP in Stanford University and Visiting Professor (Prince of Asturias Chair) at Tufts University (Boston), Javeriana University (Colombia), IVIC (Venezuela), Colegio de Mexico, University of the Andes (Chile and Colombia) and St. Antony´s College (Oxford). He was Education Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and held foreign education positions. His publications include a number of books on travels, scientific expeditions, cities,  images of nations, empires or globalization. He is co-author of The Oxford Illustrated History of the World; Professor of Writing (non-fiction) in Penguin Random House School; Assistant Editor in Culture & History;  Member of the board of Revista de Occidente and the Advisory Committee of National Geographic in Global History. He is a member of  the Royal Academy of History from Spain and the Section Committee of European Academy. He was awarded the Cross of the Civil Merit and the Silver Cross of the Civil Guard from Spain.

Corporate Experience

• Expert Advisor in Universities and International Mobility, Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education, SEPIE,  2018-2020
• Education Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in Colombia, 2012-2017, with Panama, Ecuador, Peru in connection, as well as international organizations
• European Science & Technology Reviewer, European Research Council, 2019-2021
• COST Research Networks Manager, European Science Foundation, ESF, 2004-2011
• Humanities Management Committee, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, member, 2008-2011
• Manager and evaluator of research teams and networks, regional governments from Andalucia (AGAE), Madrid (DGES, currently) Spanish National (ANEP) and others, since 2006

Academic Background

• Postdoc Formation, SAM, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1993-1995
• PhD in History of The Americas, Universidad Complutense, 1990, Spain
• Bachelor in History of the Americas, Universidad Complutense, 1985, Spain

Academic Experience

• From 1987 a member in the CSIC of the Departments and Research Groups.
• Comparative Studies of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World; “Oceans and Society”, 2020-2024 currently.
• Monumenta Amazonica-(1989-1992), Venezuela
• Historical Epistemology (2007-2010), Spain
• Hispanic Baroque (University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2007-2013)
• Emotions and Experience (CSIC, 2011-2020)
• Principal Investigator, Forest Policies and Enlightenment Ideas (1990-1992); Atlantic History and the Spanish Empire (1996-2002); Image of Spain and Latin America Abroad (2003-2006). Global History (National Geographic, after 2011).
• Supervision and direction of Ph.D, graduate theses and post-graduate research projects for institutions and students from Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, Canada, Colombia, Haiti and USA.