Pau Solanilla Franco (Barcelona, 1970) is a Public Sector Partner at Harmon Consulting and an expert in corporate diplomacy, reputation, and governance. He has a long career in the associative, institutional, and business world. He has served as Commissioner for International Relations and City Promotion for the Barcelona City Council, head of global relations for Digital Future Society at the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation; General Director of Llorente & Cuenca for Panama and Cuba; General Director for Morocco and the MENA North Africa region for the MAGTEL Group; executive advisor in the Secretary of State for the EU of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and technical advisor in the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. He is the author of several books 'Empresa responsable, empresa rentable' (ebook, 1997), 'Europa en tiempos de cólera' (Ed. El Cobre, 2010), 'La energía de lo pequeño: democracia, tecnología y territorio' (Algón Editores, 2012), 'La República de la reputación; economía, poder y emociones', (Punto de Vista editores, 2019), 'Resilientes: liderazgo, seguridad y sostenibilidad en la era de la incertidumbre' (Sostenibles.Org, 2020) and 'La república verde' (Ed. Punto Rojo, 2024). An entrepreneur and trainer with a neonómada spirit, he has lived and worked in Barcelona, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Casablanca, Seville, and Panama. He is the director of the Rafael Campalans Foundation, the think tank of the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya, founder and editor of Think Net Sostenibles.Org and professor of the Global Master in Public Affairs: Lobby, Corporate Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis at IMF Smart Education.
