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)

• Telleria, J. (2025). Sustainability and development as the systematic deferral of a better world, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 10, 100325.
• Telleria, J. (2024). Temporality in the United Nations 2030 Agenda: development or rupture?, Futures, 164: 103498.
• Telleria, J. (2024). Essentialist approaches to global issues: the ontological limitations to development studies. In H. Melber, U. Kothari, L. Camfield and K. Biekart (Eds.), Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice (pp. 15-33). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Telleria, J. & Garcia-Arias, J. (2021). The fantasmatic narrative of ‘sustainable development’. A political analysis of the 2030 Global Development Agenda, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40(1): 241-259.
• Telleria, J. (2021). Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development, Critical Social Policy, 42(4): 607-625.
• Telleria, J. (2021). Deconstructing Human Development: From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda. Oxon (UK): Routledge.

• Telleria, J. (2018). Can we ‘transform our world’ without affecting international power relations? A political analysis of the United Nations development agenda, Globalizations, 15(5): 655-669.