Hometown: Barcelona, Spain

Research interests: Gulf foreign and security policies in the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin, defense diplomacy, and civil-military relations in the Arab world.

Albert is a Fulbright Scholar who graduated from the University of Navarra (Spain) with a B.A. in International Relations, where he was awarded the Extraordinary End-of-Degree Prize. He has been recognized as the number 1 graduate nationwide in International Relations by the Spanish Society of Academic Excellence, and is a winner of the Nova 111 Student List.

In 2019, while completing his B.A., he started working as a research assistant for Prof. Tanchum, exploring the Arab Gulf states’ foreign relations in North Africa and the Horn, with a particular focus on the UAE. This gave him a unique opportunity to develop his research interests and contribute to several publications in leading think tanks, such as Spain's Real Instituto Elcano and Italy's Istituto Affari Internazionali. In parallel, he began studying Arabic at the Qasid Arabic Institute in Jordan, and he also started contributing pieces to various Spanish outlets, such as El Orden Mundial or the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies.

During his time at Georgetown, Albert has continued developing his research interests, focusing on the foreign and security policies of the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, as well as maritime security, maritime geoeconomics, and port politics, subjects that are closely related to his thesis research. He has taken advantage of the opportunities at MAAS to present his research at the Gulf Research Meeting in Cambridge (UK), conduct fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, and publish pieces with the Arab Gulf States Institute, and the Gulf States Newsletter. After finishing MAAS, he hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in International Relations, with the ultimate goal of building bridges and understanding between Europe and the Arab world.