Jordi Capdevila is the Director of the Barcelona International Peace Resource Center, focusing in the provision of international training courses for professionals from the humanitarian affairs, peacebuilding and crisis management areas. The initiative, led by the City Council of Barcelona, was created as part of the effort to transform the fortress of Montjuic from a Military space into a space for peace.
He is as well a consultant specialized in development planning, crisis management, and post-conflict reconstruction and governance. He is a regular facilitator for NATO’s international crisis management exercises. Engineer in telecommunications, he holds as well a Master´s degree in Business Administration from the University of Ramon Llull, Barcelona, and has completed multiple trainings in the field of peace operations.
Until 2007, he was living in Herat, northeast of Afghanistan, where he worked for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Prior to it, he lived for several years in Manila, Philippines, where he worked as a planning and policy specialist as well as a member of the Afghanistan operations coordination team within the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He also spent 2 years in Kosovo as a member of United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), working in the unit responsible for justice and police affairs. He currently resides in Barcelona, Spain.
