Paolo has been an Associate at Alameda since the institute was launched. He is a Senior Researcher in Social Science at the Department of Political Science and Administration at Universidade Complutense de Madrid. He has published extensively on the transformation of political parties and social movements, populism and democratic crisis. He is currently leading research on digital sovereignty, state capacity, and the geopolitics of technology, as part of Alameda’s After Order project, which explores the meaning and implications of competing contemporary claims to sovereignty. Cecília Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose of the University College London (IIPP-UCL) Associated with: CONICET, Argentina’s national research council and at the COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. Actively adivising policymakers, parlamentarians and competition authorities in the Americas and Europe.