Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez is an expert for Intercultural Cities programme of the Council of Europe and coordinator of RECI-Spanish Network of Intercultural Cities.
She is also Head of Migration and Mobility Policies at Instrategies - Think&Do and associate researcher at GRITIM-Pompeu Fabra University. She has served as Head of Cabinet of the Spanish State Secretary on Immigration.
She has worked extensively with local and regional authorities in migration, asylum and integration and inclusion topics. Furthermore, she has been appointed as an expert for different opinions in the Committee of Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee, and she was involved in several European projects such as “Estrategia antirumores para prevenir el Racismo”, the C4i-Communication for Integration project, co-funded by the Council of Europe and the European Commission and the REGIN project funded by the European Commission.
She holds a BA in Political Sciences and received her MA in International Relations and her MA in Political Analysis.