Juli Minoves-Triquell was born in Andorra la Vella on 15 August 1969. In 2024, he was elected Rector of the University of Andorra by the University Council.

He completed his secondary studies at the French Lycée Comte de Foix in Andorra. He holds a degree in Economic and Social Sciences from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University (United States). Full Professor at the University of La Verne, California, and Director of the Institute for International Studies at this university, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris), the CIDOB in Barcelona, and the Taiwan National University of Science and Technology in Taipei. In 2022, he was elected as Andorra’s Representative to the Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences of Spain (Instituto de España).

He has served his country in diplomacy and politics. He was the first permanent Representative Ambassador of Andorra to the United Nations, and Ambassador to the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom, among other diplomatic roles. He represented Andorra as Chief Negotiator at the Rome Conference for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. As the thirteenth President of the Liberal International, the global federation of liberal parties founded at the University of Oxford in 1947, he was elected honorary lifetime President of this organisation at the Dakar Congress of 2018. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Andorra for six years, he negotiated Andorra’s agreements with the European Union in 2004, and brought his country to the Ibero-American summits and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. He was also Minister of Culture, Higher Education, Economic Development, Tourism, Spokesperson for the Government, and President of the Institut d’Estudis Andorrans.