Ángel Badillo

Senior Analyst

Ángel Badillo is Senior Analyst on Culture and Language at the Elcano Royal Institute (since 2013) and Professor and Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Communication and the Iberoamerican Institute at the University of Salamanca (since 2007), teaching at diverse national and international post-graduate programmes (MSc and PhD). He is also research fellow at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO) in Spain, and visiting researcher at universities such as Université Paris 8 and Paris 13 (France), Université de Québec à Montréal (Canada), Syracuse University (US), University of Southern California (US), UNAM (Mexico) or Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina), among others, and worked with national and international think tanks such as Freedom House. He was the founder Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Creative, Cultural and Communication Industries (GRIC) at the University of Salamanca, and the MBA programme on Cultural Industries and Institutions (with the Prisa media group). Between 2013 and 2015, he was Chairmen of the Latin Union of Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture (ULEPICC), the most important academic network of research on policy and economics of culture in Latin America, coordinating the scientific organisation of more than two hundred researchers.

Research areas: his research areas are focused on the study of soft power, cultural diplomacy, industrial and cultural policies from the perspective of the political economy of information, communication and culture, and the transformations of culture in the context of digital convergence. His works have appeared in numerous monographs, professional and scientific journals.

Selected publications: Torres y muros frente al multiculturalismo: hispanos y español en la presidencia de Donald Trump” (ARI 11/2018, Elcano Royal Institute); “El Instituto Cervantes y la diplomacia cultural en España: una reflexión sobre el modelo” (with Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Elcano Royal Institute, 2016); “The difficulty of measuring culture and diversity. Comparison of three international models of cultural measurement: FCS-2009, ESSnet-2012 and CAB-2015” (with Marta Fuertes, 2016); “Los latinos y las industrias culturales en español en Estados Unidos” (with Jessica Retis, DT 01/2015, Elcano Royal Institute), “Las políticas públicas de acción cultural exterior de España” (EEE 19/2014, Elcano Royal Institute).