Blanca Manresa Farreras

Blanca Manresa Farreras serves as Operations Coordinator at the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT). Blanca brings seven years of professional experience as a private-sector lawyer in Barcelona. She previously served as Legal Advisor and Multilateral Organisations Officer at the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (a governmental body), where she was responsible for coordinating the organisation’s activities and programs with UN agencies. Blanca previously served as an International Officer specialising in development and gender issues at the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Argentina.

Blanca is a graduate of the Law Faculty at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Cooperation from the Centre for International Studies of Barcelona (CIDOB), a Diploma in Human Rights from the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia (IDHC), a Diploma in Mediation from the University Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, and a Diploma in NGO management from ESADE Business School.

Working languages: English, Spanish, and Catalan