Intercultural cities experts

A range of international experts participate to support the Intercultural cities programme.

Their tasks include, inter alia:

Drafting analytical reports on cities’ results on the Intercultural cities’ index;
Participating in monitoring visits and preparing reports such as the Intercultural profiles of member cities;
Providing advice to cities in the context of the preparation of their intercultural strategies;
Preparing thematic events and drafting reports and policy briefs based on the results;
Providing advice and training in specific areas (eg myth-busting, intercultural competence, political communication);
Providing policy advice in specific areas (education, culture, housing, economic development, social services, urban planning, impact evaluation etc.);
Managing national intercultural cities networks;
Designing and managing specific projects (eg. awareness campaigns).

ICC experts

Back ABANADES David Martín

Local Police Inspector

David Martín Abanades is a Local Police Inspector in Spain. He has a law degree from Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and master’s degree in Human Rights, Democracy and Globalization at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

He has worked on issues of security and social diversity, discrimination, and improvement of relations between police and minority groups since 2007, launching the first police diversity management team in Spain in 2008. In 2016, he was in charge of setting up the diversity management unit of the Madrid Municipal Police. He has also participated in the drafting of the current Municipal Police Master Plan of Madrid.

He has collaborated as a police expert with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe and the United Nations, as well as with the European Commission, always on themes related to hate crimes, racial/ethnic profiling, protection of human rights and improvement of relations between police and vulnerable social groups.

At the university level, he has taught classes and conferences in different courses and master's degrees in Spain.

He has written and collaborated in different police manual and books, and he is the author of “Intercultural cities, Manual on Community Policing” of the Intercultural Cities programme.