OXON HILL, MD, June 21, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Alexandre Muns, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than 30 years of experience in academia, speechwriting, journalism, work for institutions and consulting, Dr. Muns is currently an adjunct professor at the EAE Business School, a contributor to newspapers and a consultant. He has worked in five countries and traveled to more than 70. He has contributed to the academic, public and private sectors in a number of capacities at the international level. Praised for his scholarly specialization in international economic institutions, international trade, economic integration, and European integration, he was an adjunct professor at Pompeu Fabra University (1997-1998, 1999-2009, 2011-2013), International University of Catalonia (UIC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, ESADE Business School, and OBS Business School (2017-2022).
Thriving in challenging multicultural environments, Dr. Muns is especially proud of his service on behalf of three presidents of multilateral development banks. He was assistant and speechwriter to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, to the president of the World Bank Group, and to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the latter two in Washington, D.C. In these positions, working alone or with other staff, he researched and wrote numerous speeches, talking points, forewords, articles, op-eds, messages for staff, and chapters of books. Dr. Muns' exceptional writing skills and tireless work ethic drove him to produce a large amount of content on a wide range of topics for these prestigious international institutions.
Dr. Muns also served as the director of studies at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain, head of the Europe and transatlantic program at the CIDOB Foundation, the top think-tank in Spain, and director of international relations for the Barcelona-Catalonia Logistics Center. He was also a generator of content for the minister of economics of Catalonia in 1999-2000 and drafted a study in 2012 at the behest of the Catalan government recommending the creation of an area of enhanced economic cooperation between five EU member states - Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Malta - and five North African countries - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania. Dr. Muns authored a study for the Spanish government on the measures adopted to defuse the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis in 2010-2012. In the private sector, he was a consultant to the president of the Spanish bank Bankpyme, specifically on a project to expand into Poland. He was also an advisor to the Spanish high-tech cloud-computing company Internacional Periféricos y Memorias.
Dr. Muns' consulting also encompassed drafting several studies on international topics or related to the United States for Fundación Alternativas, linked to Spain's center-left Socialist Party (PSOE), the center-right Partido Popular's Faes foundation and the former Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya's Catdem think-tank.
Honoring his commitment to promoting the interests of the United States of America, free trade, democracy and the strength of the transatlantic relationship, Dr. Muns has received numerous letters of commendation from officials at the highest level from the US Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the World Bank Group, the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones, and former presidents, prime ministers or high-ranking officials from the United States, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Spain's autonomous community of Catalonia.
Since 1992, he has authored numerous academic articles and more than four hundred articles for newspapers about international, US and European economic, political, military, and technological developments and trends. He remains a regular contributor to the Spanish newspapers Cinco Días/El País (the latter a global newspaper), La Razón and Economía Digital. He also served as a correspondent for Catalan Public Radio in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1994-1995 and for COM Radio in Germany in 1999 and the United States in 2001. His analysis has been featured in many newspapers and news magazines.
Dr. Muns has written seven books. His latest, "Globalism versus Nativism: How to Bridge the Digital Divide" (Amazon, 2018), examines the profound impact technology is having on the labor market and countries' fraying political fabric. Its second part offers the insight of more than 20 distinguished professors and professionals from the top 20 economies in the world by volume of GDP on how to repair the resulting elimination of many jobs and growing political and economic polarization. It completes his trilogy of books whose content partly includes a clash of ideas with resurrected great economists, in this case with Milton Friedman.
"Globalism versus Nativism" features a foreword by Professor Horst Teltschik, the only German high-ranking official who successfully negotiated the peaceful reunification of Germany in 1989-1990 who is still alive. It was presented in a hall of Barcelona's opera house employed by the Catalonia Civil Society, and by the INCIPE think-tank in Madrid. Dr. Muns was interviewed by several radio stations in the United States on the topic of his seventh book - technological disruption.
His first book, "De la Perestroika a la CEI" (Marré, 1992) is an analysis of President Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts to save the USSR and its economy. His second, "USA, Quo Vadis?" (Editorial Granica, 2003) examines the US's role during the Cold War and the post-Cold War international order. It was presented at the Pompeu Fabra University, where Dr. Muns was an adjunct professor at the time. Dr. Muns' third book, "The End of the Cold War: German Reunification" (Editorial Aranzadi, 2007), is a summary of his PhD and was introduced at the University of Navarra in Pamplona by full professor Rafael Domingo.
His fourth book, "Conversaciones con Marx" (Editorial Aresta, 2009) offers ideas on how to make capitalism more ethical, social and sustainable, partly through a clash of ideas with a resurrected Karl Marx. It was presented in 2010 in Barcelona at the SEBAP (Barcelona Economic Society of Friends of the Country). SEBAP was founded in 1822. Mr. Miquel Roca Junyent, one of the founders of Spain's 1978 Constitution, presented the book. It includes a foreword by full professor Juan Tugores, former rector and dean of the University of Barcelona. His fifth, "Ethical Capitalism: What it can do for you" (Aresta, 2011) expands on the topic and updates "Conversaciones with Marx". It was presented at an event held by the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Muns returned to the literary technique of engaging in a debate with three of the most renowned economists of the 19th or 20th centuries in "Of Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Statesmen" (Aresta and Amazon, 2015). It analyzes four geoeconomic challenges -- competitiveness, inequality, demography, and energy security - in the top 20 economies in the world, in this case partly in a debate with a resurrected John Maynard Keynes. The book has an introduction by Lothar de Maizière, East Germany's only democratically elected prime minister, and a foreword by Professor Horst Teltschik. It was presented in 2015 at the Association of Catalan Economists in Barcelona. Events about the topics of Dr. Muns' books have also been held in other prestigious US universities or institutions, such as The Woman's' National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C., from Spain such as the Ateneu of Barcelona (founded in 1822), the University of Barcelona and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. Additionally, Dr. Muns has delivered conferences or been on panels with other academics at several institutions and universities in the United States. Among others, at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C.; in Spain at the University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and European Commission office in Barcelona; in Germany; in Ecuador at the Universidad Vicente Rocafuert; and in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Saratov at the invitation of the European Commission's office in Russia.
Dr. Muns was a frequent guest or regular analyst on many Spanish and Catalan TV channels, including Spanish public television RTVE, broadcast around the world, and radio programs from the 1990s until 2013. He remains an analyst to some, but after permanently moving to the United States in 2013, the logistics of such appearances are much more difficult and are limited to Zoom or other remote interviews.
Dr. Muns translated the book "Boomerang Chávez" about Hugo Chávez's dictatorship and its consequences into English and edited Professor Alexander Mirtchev's "The Alternative Energy Megatrend."
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in geography and history from the University of Barcelona in 1996. He obtained a scholarship and attended the University of Tübingen in Germany during his undergraduate studies. He obtained his doctorate in contemporary history from the University of Barcelona in 2004. His dissertation examined the international negotiations that led to the reunification of Germany in 1990 within the context of the end of the Cold War in Europe.
Born in Spain, he has lived for 15 years in the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen in 2019, in addition to retaining his Spanish citizenship. His transatlantic professional career since the late 1990s and his work for US and international institutions were driving forces in the acceptance of his self-promotion request for Lawful Permanent Residence in 2015 and subsequently citizenship of the United States of America in 2019. He has also worked in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and spent considerable time in Poland and Russia. He has a native-level knowledge of English, Spanish and Catalan, a near-native level of German and French, and speaks Russian and Polish. He hopes his work can complement those of others who seek to diminish the political polarization in the US and other democracies, as well as the digital divide between the winners and losers of globalization and technological progress. In this regard, he was an unofficial volunteer in Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign and now President Joe Biden's in 2020. He is currently a consultant with ACE Global Solutions.
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