ORCiD 0000-0002-6655-4968

Stefano Intropido is a social scientist whose interdisciplinary research bridges the gap between academia, public policy and practice. He works as a research associate at the Inter-University Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC) at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he contributes to the CATCH project – The Catholic Church and the Environment, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), which focuses on the Catholic Church and the environment.

Drawing on the sociology of diplomacy, international relations and studies of transnational religious actors, he uses ethnography and archival research to examine the relationships and tensions between Catholic actors (for example, Holy See diplomats, Curia officials, Catholic NGOs, religious orders, and local and transnational organisations) and the various forms of authority they seek within intergovernmental institutions (such as the UN). Within the framework of CATCH, she applies this approach to Catholic environmental policy, tracing how environmental ideas circulate amongst Vatican diplomacy, religious organisations and grassroots initiatives.

His monograph, The Politics of Catholic NGO Networks: Religion, Migration, and the Humanitarian Babel* (Routledge, 2027), examines the organisational dynamics of Catholic humanitarian networks and their relationship with the secular refugee system.

He holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow (UK), an MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and a BA (Hons) in International Politics and Languages from the University of Stirling (UK); he has been a visiting researcher at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and a Stevenson Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris (France). Before joining CISPAC, he taught international politics in the United Kingdom and worked on inter-university collaborative projects on public policy and international affairs.

Outside the academic sphere, he has collaborated with local schools, think tanks, civil society organisations and faith-based networks in Spain, Ireland, Italy and France. He participates in the ‘Refugees & Migrants in Our Common Home’ initiative, led by Villanova University (USA), which promotes partnerships for the education of refugees, and in the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church network.