Francesc Badia i Dalmases

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is a journalist, political analyst, and geopolitics expert, and founder and director of democraciaAbierta, a global platform for Latin American voices and a section of openDemocracy, London. He is a frequent international affairs analyst and media commentator, speaker at international debates and think tank seminars worldwide, and a regular contributor to El País, The Guardian, and many other international media.

Badia is a Pulitzer Center grantee and has been awarded the 2021 Gabo Prize for his work in the Amazon.

Apart from his native Spanish, he is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Badia was born in Mexico and spends most of his professional life between Latin America and Europe. Badia is the author of several books, including "Order and Disorder in the 21st Century" (Barcelona 2015), and more recently "Disruptions. Backlash and Resistances of Latin American Democracies" (London, 2024).