Juan Carlos Triviño-Salazar is Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral fellow at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He holds a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu-Fabra (Barcelona). His research follows two distinctive lines: the Multilevel Governance of Immigration and Integration and Regulatory Governance. His work has been published in Public Administration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Revista de Estudios Políticos. He has done academic stays at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, City University of New York – Graduate Center and McMaster University, Hamilton (Canada). He is currently involved in the IBEI-led European project GLOBE, the national project Plural Cities (¿Ayuntamientos Plurales?) and he is also the principal investigator for the project LocalRef: Refugees Welcome? A comparisson between Barcelona and Madrid (funded by the Catalan Government). His teaching experience relates to immigration and integration policy-making, research methods and comparative politics.