Judit Carrera is the Director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). A columnist for the newspaper El País, she is also a member of the plenary assembly of the Barcelona City Council’s Board of Culture. After studying in Paris, she worked with UNESCO’s Analysis and Forecasting Office. Later, she worked in the Department of International Relations of the Barcelona City Council coordinating worldwide networks of cities with the United Nations System and, subsequently, setting up the umbrella organization United Cities and Local Governments. Carrera has a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of barcelona and received a Master’s of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Political Philosophy from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.