About the Authors. Food security Monograph

Anna Ayuso Pozo

Doctor in Public International Law and holder of a master’s degree in European Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Senior research fellow for Latin America at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). Associate professor of Public International Law since 1998 and member of the Global INTEL research team at the UAB. Associate professor in the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) and member of the editorial board of the Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internationals. 

Pamela Aróstica

PhD in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and International Studies from the University of Chile. Senior research fellow at the Centre for Studies on the Asia-Pacific and India (CEAPI) at the Tres de Febrero National University (UNTREF) in Argentina and a member of the editorial board of the magazine Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. Director of the China & Latin America Network: Multidisciplinary Approaches (REDCAEM). 

Jordi Bacaria Colom 

Emeritus professor at the UAB and editor of the magazine Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica. He has a PhD in Economics and is a former professor of Applied Economics at the UAB, director of CIDOB, co-director of the Institute for European Integration Studies in Mexico – assigned by the European Commission – and director of the Institute of European Studies at the UAB. His teaching and research have focused on European integration and agri-food systems. 

Ignacio Bartesaghi

Director of the International Business Institute and professor at the Catholic University of Uruguay (UCU). He has completed postdoctoral studies in Economic Integration, holds a PhD in International Relations, a master’s degree in Integration and International Trade, a postgraduate degree in International Business and Integration, and in Foreign Trade, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations. Previously, he was coordinator of the Latin America - Asia-Pacific Observatory, a joint initiative of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). 

Sergio M. Cesarin

Master of Arts from Peking University. Coordinator at the CEAPI and lecturer on the master’s degree in Economics and Business with the Asia-Pacific and India at the UNTREF. Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). He has been an adviser to Argentina’s Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, and Ministry of Science and Technology. 

Josep Maria de Dios Marcer

Director of the Institute of European Studies at the UAB and editor of the magazine Quaderns IEE. A professor of Private International Law at the UAB, he lectures in European Union Law, his teaching and research area being the private international law of the European Union and the Internal Market, focusing on the free movement of people, the right of establishment and freedom to provide services. 

Adrian H. Hearn

Anthropologist, professor and researcher of Latin American Studies at the University of Melbourne, in Australia. His research focuses on urban interculturality, migration and the sustainability of food systems in China-Latin America relations. He is currently focusing on food security and on how public confidence impacts local food production in Beijing, Melbourne, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. 

Detlef Nolte

Doctor in Political Science from the University of Mannheim and an associate fellow of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). He was the director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) (2006-2018) and a visiting professor at FLACSO Argentina, the University of Salvador (Buenos Aires), the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Santiago de Chile), the University of São Paulo (USP) and the São Paulo State University (Unesp). 

María del Pilar Ostos

Researcher and professor at the Mexican Navy Institute for Strategic Research (ININVESTAM), belonging to Mexico’s Centre for Advanced Naval Studies (CESNAV). PhD in Political Science with postdoctoral studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has a master’s degree in International Studies from the UNAM and is a political scientist at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia.