Manuel Lucena-Giraldo is Research Scientist in the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC, Director of the Chair of Spanish and Hispanic Heritage from the Universities of Madrid, Adjunct Professor in IE Business School/IE University and Affiliate professor in ESCP Business School Europe. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Lecturer BOSP in Stanford University and Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University ((Sweden) Tufts University (Boston), Javeriana University (Colombia), IVIC (Venezuela), Colegio de Mexico, University of the Andes (Chile and Colombia) and St. Antony´s College (Oxford).

He was Education Attaché in the Spanish Embassy in Colombia and held foreign education positions. His publications include a number of books on travels, scientific expeditions, cities, images of nations, empires or globalization.

He is professor of Writing (Non-Fiction) in Cursiva, Penguin Random House School; Member of the board in Hispania Nostra and Revista de Occidente and adviser in National Geographic-History. He is a member of  the Royal Academy of History from Spain and belongs to the Section Committee of the European Academy.