Doctorate in semiology and in cultural history (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)

Président of the Board of Monde Diplomatioque SA

Editor in Chief of the monthly Le Monde diplomatique and of the bi-monthly Manière de voir since 1991.

Associated professor of communication theory at Denis-Diderot University (Paris-VII). Also Associated professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain.
He is further invited professor at various universities, to note at Saint Petersburg (Russia) Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Havana, Buenos Aires, Las Palmas and Valencia.

He gave lectures and lead seminars in many outstanding international universities: Madrid, Barcelona, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Bilbao, Porto, Coimbra, Bologna, Milan, Rome, Catania, Lovaina, Gante, Brussels, Geneva, Zurich, Lugano, Amsterdam, Munich, Brema, Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, Cracovia, Athens, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, Princeton, New York, Mexico, Bogota, Cali, Havana, Caracas, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, Santiago de Chile, Rabat, Casablanca, Tokyo, Kyoto, etc.

Founder of ATTAC (Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen) of which he is Honorary President
Founder of the international NGO Media Watch Global
Promoter of the World Social Forum
UN expert consultant – geopolitics and international strategy specialist

Prices: Free Press 1999 “Best journalist of the year” Girona, Spain.
Colomba d’Oro “Best foreign journalist in defence of peace”, Rome, Italy 2000
“ Best journalist in defence for human rights” La Coruña, Spain, 2001

Ignacio RAMONET is author of many books on media and geopolitics: Le Chewing-gum des yeux, Alain Moreau, Paris, 1981; La Communication victime des marchands, La Découverte, Paris, 1989; Como nos venden la moto, (with Noam Chomsky), Icaria, Barcelona, 1995; Nouveaux pouvoirs, nouveaux maîtres du monde, Fides, Montréal, 1996; Géopolitique du chaos, Galilée, Paris, 1997 (col. Folio, Gallimard, octobre 1999); Internet, el mundo que llega, Alianza, Madrid, 1998; Rebeldes, dioses y excluidos (with Mariano Aguirre), Icaria, Barcelona, 1998 ; La Tyrannie de la communication, Galilée, Paris, 1999; Geopolitica y comunicacion de final de milenio, Fundacio Caixa, Sabadell, 1999; La Golosina Visual, Debate, Madrid, 2000; et Propagandes silencieuses, Galilée, Paris, 2000; Marcos, la dignité rebelle, Galilée, Paris, 2001; La Post-Télévision, Icaria, Barcelona, 2002; and Guerres du XXIe siècle, Galilée, Paris, 2002.