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Profile
Dr Borja García joined the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences in January 2009. He holds a PhD in Politics, International Relations and European Studies from Loughborough University (United Kingdom), where he completed his thesis titled ‘The European Union and the Governance of Football: A game of levels and agendas’.
Prior to joining Loughborough, Dr García graduated with an MA (‘very good’) in European Political and Administrative Studies at the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and he also completed an MA (‘with merit’) in European Politics at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). A graduate in media studies (Complutense University, Madrid, Spain), Dr García worked full time in different Spanish media (including print, radio and online media) for five years before joining the European Parliament’s Madrid office during the 2002 Spanish presidency of the EU.
Dr García is an internationally recognised expert in the area of EU sports law, policy and governance. As a result of his expertise, he has taught sports policy and governance at internationally leading institutions such as the German Sports University Cologne or Seoul National University (Republic of Korea). Dr García has published extensively in international academic journals and is a regular expert contributor in media outlets such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News, TRT, The Guardian, and Cadena SER.
As a result of his work and expertise, Dr García has advised European Union institutions and agencies (European Parliament, European Commission, European Education and Culture Executive Agency), sport organisations (FA, Korean Olympic Committee, Sri Lanka National Olympic Committee, Football Supporters Europe), and governmental institutions such as the Commonwealth and the government of the Republic of Kosovo.
Dr Borja García was awarded in 2010 a ‘European Citizen of Honour’ award in the ‘academic’ category by the European think tank, Sport & Citizenship. This award recognised the person who best demonstrated through their academic work that sport is a factor reinforcing European citizenship.