Ángel Badillo
Senior Analyst
Ángel Badillo, PhD, is Senior Analyst on Spanish Language and Culture at the Real Instituto Elcano (since 2013), research fellow of the Iberoamerican Institute of the University of Salamanca (since 2005) and faculty member of the Social Sciences School and the Global Governance PhD program of the University of Salamanca (since 2007). He taught Graduate courses in Culture and Communication at Syracuse University and directed the MBA Program on Cultural Companies and Institutions of Santillana Formacion. He has also been visiting fellow at the universities of Paris 8 and 13, Université de Québec à Montréal (Canada), University of Southern California (USA), UNAM (México) or National University of Quilmes (Argentina), among others. He served as president of the Latin-American Union of Political Economy of Culture and Communications (ULEPICC) and Director of the Structures and Policies section of the Spanish national association of communication research (AE-IC).
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).
Converging western cultural policy debates
Ángel Badillo Matos. Expert Comment 23/2019 - 7/8/2019.
The last decades of the 20th century saw the emergence of culture as a scientific domain, as a public-policy issue and even as a range of professional profiles.
Towers and walls against multiculturalism: Hispanics and Spanish in the Trump Presidency
Ángel Badillo Matos. ARI 36/2018 (English version) - 12/3/2018.
The election of Donald Trump has generated new tensions around the public use of Spanish in the US and, above all, over multiculturalism.