Team | Ricard Faura

Ricard Faura Cantarell, PhD.

PhD in Social Psychology and anthropologist.

Ricard Faura holds a PhD in social psychology and a master’s degree in anthropology and audiovisual communication. He is a founding member of the Drug Policy Unit at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is currently a senior consultant at Episteme, where he has also carried out training work. From the ICEERS Foundation, he builds bridges between diverse cultures that use different traditional plants with psychoactive capacity. He is also an advisor to the Fund for the Conservation of Indigenous Medicines and a collaborating professor at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where he has been teaching for 20 years.

Throughout his career, he has evaluated several drug prevention and intervention programmes, mainly from the harm reduction paradigm. In recent years, she has been working with local and international communities to support biocultural conservation and the regeneration of indigenous medicines.