Jordi Quero is Researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs’ (CIDOB) Middle East Program. He is also Associate Lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, where he lectures on International Relations Theory and International Relations of the Middle East. His most recent publications include: “Regional Order and Regional Powers in the MENA” (with E. Soler), in Szmolka, I. (2017), Political Change in the MENA: After the Arab Spring, Edinburgh University Press; and “Chinese Official Geopolitical Cartographies and Discursive Constructions of the Mediterranean”, in Ehteshami, A. et al. (2017), The Mediterranean Reset: Geopolitics in a New Age, Global Policy. He holds Master's degrees in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and in International Affairs from Columbia University.