Cristina Monge

Political scientist and professor

Political scientist and PhD from the University of Zaragoza (Unizar), where she teaches Sociology. Her areas of interest are sustainability and democratic quality, and in particular, governance for ecological transition, a subject she works on in research centres such as the Institute for Democratic Governance (Globernance), the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and the Centre for Innovation in Technology for Development (itdUPM). She is also a member of the board of patronage of the Ecodes Foundation.

She is a political analyst for El País, Cadena SER, RTVE, Infolibre and Green European Journal, and is a member of the advisory board of Llorente y Cuenca and Ethic magazine. Since 2018 she has participated in the Open Government Forum, since 2019, in the Advisory Council for Development Cooperation and, since its creation, in the Methodological Advisory Group of the accountability project of the Presidency of the Government of Spain, Cumpliendo.

Author of 15M: Un movimiento político para democratizar la sociedad (2017), she has coordinated the collective work Tras la indignación. 15M: Miradas desde el presente (2021). She is also co-author, with Raúl Oliván, of Hackear la Política (2018) and, with JJ Verón, of Iniciativa Social de Mediación de los conflictos del agua en Aragón (2019). She is also co-editor of the collection Más Cultura Política, Más Democracia, in collaboration with Gedisa and chairs the Association Más Democracia.

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