Pere Almeda has been the director of the Centre for Contemporary Studies of the Catalan Government and of the IDEES magazine. A lawyer, he has a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Political Science and a postgraduate degree in International Relations and Culture of Peace. He is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. He has worked and collaborated in various institutions such as the Parlament de Catalunya, in various departments of the Government of the Generalitat, the European Parliament and the Department of Political Affairs of the General Secretariat of the United Nations. He has also been linked to various cultural projects and was director of the Palau i Fabre Foundation.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ferran Agulló School of Òmnium Cultural and of the Fundació Catalunya Europa. In 2021 he has promoted as editor and coordinator and the collective book Catalunya - Espanya: del conflicte al diàleg polític?.