Manuel Luis Pérez García

Manuel Luis Pérez García is a postdoctoral researcher and a member of various university research groups. He is a corresponding academic at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Spain. His research areas focus, among other topics, on public and private integrity, anti-corruption, good corporate governance, company law—particularly regarding publicly owned companies—transparency and sustainability, non-financial information, and the economic analysis of law. He holds a Law degree from the University of Barcelona (UB) and a Ph.D. in Law from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), having received the highest distinction. He completed the 16th Leadership Program for Public Management (IESE Business School). He also participated in the Law and Economics course at Harvard Law School with a scholarship from the Rafael del Pino Foundation. In addition to being a founding member of the Ibero-American Institute of Law and Finance (IIDF), he is a member of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (AEDE) and the Spanish Association of Constitutional Law Scholars (ACE). He currently serves as a legal advisor to the Barcelona City Council. He is a former legal advisor at the Technical Office of the Supreme Court (Administrative Litigation Chamber) and former deputy director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Spanish Court of Auditors, in the Department of State-Owned Enterprises and Other Public Entities. He is now Deputy Director of the Legal Advisory Office to the Presidency of the Court of Auditors. He carried out a postdoctoral research stay as a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has been a speaker at numerous national and international events and is the author of various works and articles published by legal publishers and specialized journals. His latest monograph is: “Criminal Compliance and Publicly-Owned Commercial Companies: (Good) Corporate Governance and Public-Business Integrity in the 21st Century” (Aranzadi, 2025).