Juan Telleria is a full-time assistant professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and a researcher at Hegoa Institute. His research, which draws on his working experience in the sector of international cooperation for development (2004-2010), critically analyses the United Nations discourse on international development and sustainability – e.g., Human Development Reposts of the UNDP and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He has published in Third World Quarterly, Globalizations, Critical Social Policy, The European Journal of Development Studies and Environment and Planning C among other journals. In 2021 he published the book Deconstructing Human Development (Routledge).