Dr. Torres is Director of the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain). Previously he was a professor and research associate at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) and at the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University, as well as Director of the European Institute of International Studies (Sweden). He has been a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), University of Bergen and University of Oslo (Norway), University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (Romania), University of Salamanca (Spain), University of Economics and Anglo-American University (Czech Republic), as well as at different diplomatic academies in Europe, Asia and America. He is also a member of several international scientific committees within the framework of the United Nations, G20 and the European Union, as well as a member of the academic councils of the European Union-Latin America and the Caribbean Academic Forum, the Center for Latin American Studies (Czech Republic), the Latin American Center of European Union Studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and the Center for International Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (Argentina). His research has been published in Sweden, Germany, the United States, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Peru, Mexico, Chile, France, Switzerland, Italy, Saudi Arabia and India.