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Biography

Carles Castello-Catchot

Carles Castello-Catchot is associate director of the Atlantic Council's Strategic Foresight Initiative.

Before joining the Council, Carles held different positions at The Aspen Institute, a Washington DC based international nonprofit. He helped launch Ascend, a new program focused on moving families in the United States, especially single women and children, away from poverty. He was also a Brent Scowcroft Award fellow at the Aspen Strategy Group, where he worked on the US-India Strategic Dialogue, the Aspen Ministers Forum led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and the newly created Trilateral Dialogue among the EU, China, and the US. Prior to that, he served as an assistant to the executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Culture and Society. During his years in Barcelona, Carles worked as a program evaluator at the department of environmental affairs of the government in Catalunya, as a tax consultant for Ernst & Young Lawyers, as a research associate on the project “Power, Law and Justice in International Regimes”, sponsored by the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry, and as a guest lecturer on Spain and the European integration process at the Barcelona Center for Education Abroad.

Originally from Menorca, Spain, Carles is a graduate of Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, with a BA degree in political science and administration, and an MA in international relations by the Barcelona Institute of International Studies, where he wrote his thesis on “The effects of humanitarian intervention on the contemporary international order”, awarded with the highest honors. After receiving a La Caixa Foundation scholarship for further study abroad awarded by the King of Spain in 2008, he came to Washington DC and graduated in 2010 with distinction with a MS in Foreign Service program at Georgetown University. Carles is proficient in English, Spanish, and Catalan, and speaks conversational French and German.