The current Director of the Institute is Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona.

IBEI is currently recognized as one of the focal points at the European level in the fields of Political science and International Affairs.

The institute was located in Elisabets Street for ten years, in the neighborhood of El Raval, Ciutat Vella in Barcelona.

IBEI also has agreements with various international organizations, NGO, governments and multinational corporations to provide internships for students.

IBEI also organizes other activities throughout the academic year, such as the Master in Diplomacy and Foreign Action with DIPLOCAT (Generalitat of Catalonia) or Barcelona Government network courses.

Each cluster brings together IBEI faculty members, affiliated professors, visiting scholars, and doctoral students who share expertise on a common theme and provides them with a platform to discuss their work, exchange views, and start joint research initiatives.

The scientific production of the institute is focused on connecting the interests and concerns of today's society with the dynamics of globalization and internationalization.

Global governance captures the changing patterns in which common problems are dealt with in today's increasingly interdependent world.

Building on classical multilateral forms of cooperation, it encompasses today a bewildering array of actors and institutions.

Public and private actors, formal and informal institutions, intergovernmental and transnational forms of regulation interact in an often uncoordinated, sometimes competitive, and typically highly complex structure.

From the perspective of political economy, a central concern of this programme are the changes in the composition and comparative strengths of the different actors participating in the creation of public institutions and policies, whether national or transnational.

[12] The main thematic areas of research are: The dynamics and politics of development, The impacts of regional integration processes, The transnationalization of economic activities, The spread of policies and institutions and Democracy, states and growth.

The programme addresses different dimensions of the "new" security agenda, which incorporates problems of global scope (energy and environmental risks, transnational crime, global terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, massive population movements) that mutually reinforce both each other and traditional problems (armed conflicts, persistent poverty).

IBEI also encourages young PhD graduates to apply to competitive calls and develop their research at the institute.

The current Director of the Institute is Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona.

IBEI also has a prestigious International Academic Council chaired by Javier Solana, meeting biannually to discuss the strategic planning.