Gorka Espiau

Bilbao Spain

Senior Fellow

Education

Gorka Espiau Idoiaga is the Director of Innovation for Cities and Regions at the Young Foundation and a Senior Fellow at the “Agirre Lehendakaria Center for Social and Political Studies”, a collaborative research project to share internationally the Basque case of socio-economic transformation under extreme difficulties. Espiau is also a founding partner of Social Innovation Laboratory Koop (SILK), a member of the International Advisory Group of INCORE (University of Ulster) and Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) country ambassador. Previously he was the Head of International Programmes at Innovalab, and served as Senior Adviser to the Executive Office of the Basque President.