JOSE LUIS
PASTORIZA ROZAS

Doctor in Philosophy from the University of Santiago de Compostela. Master in Local Development from the USC and MSc NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Member of the HISPONA research group of the USC, trustee of the Isla Couto Foundation, member of the Chair of Historical Memory of the UDC, expert of the Galician Council for Cooperation for Development (CONGACODE) and associate researcher of the Galician Institute of Analysis and Documentation International (IGADI). His research areas cover Galician philosophy, Galician nationalism and its networks during the Second Republic and Francoism, education for global citizenship and public policy on development cooperation. In his publications he has contributed to the reconstruction of the political-cultural initiatives of Galicianism and to the biographies of Xaime Isla, Ramiro Isla, Chita Lamas Barreiro, Plácido Castro, Florencio Delgado Gurriarán, Camilo José Cela, Ramón Piñeiro and Francisco Fernández del Riego . His professional experience includes project and management officer at Coordinadora Galega de ONGD, global citizenship education officer at Entreculturas ONGD, researcher at Fundación Isla Couto, and director of the C.M.U. San Agustín (Santiago de Compostela). Between 2012 and 2023, he facilitated as a consultant the participatory processes of strategic planning and evaluation of the public development cooperation policy of the Xunta de Galicia and provided technical assistance services to Entreculturas, Manos Unidas, Global Campaign for Education, Coordinadora Galega de ONGD, Fondo Galego de Cooperación e Solidariedade, Cooperation and Volunteering Office of University of A Coruña, and Galician Network of University Cooperation for Development.