Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez is professor at University of Deusto (Bilbao), where he has acted in different positions like vice-rector, dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, or director of the Human Rights Institute. He served as legal adviser of the Basque Ombudsman and was the president of a Basque NGO for the promotion of migrants’ rights. Among other responsibilities, Dr. Ruiz Vieytez has been a member of the Spanish Council for Integration of Migrants, the Spanish Observatory for Religious Pluralism, the Basque Culture Official Institute and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. At the academic level, he has developed short research stays at different universities, particularly in Switzerland, Italy, Canada and Australia. He has also participated in several missions of the Council of Europe concerning national and linguistic minorities in countries like Moldova, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and Armenia. His fields of research are integration policies, national conflicts, minority rights and the relation between human rights and religious, linguistic and cultural diversity .