Marc Esteve has a PhD in Management Sciences from Esade-URL. He was a visiting research fellow at Cardiff Business School and postdoctoral researcher at the then Institute of Public Governance and Management of Esade.

He is a professor of international public management at the School of Public Policy, University College London (UCL), director of the Master in Public Administration and Management at UCL and co-director of the Executive Master in Public Administration for Global Policy Leaders that this university offers in conjunction with the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (NYU). Marc Esteve joined Esade in 2016 as a visiting professor.

His specialist areas are public management, leadership, organizational change and interorganizational collaboration. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration and International Public Management Journal, among others, as well as in the minutes of numerous congresses and in books. He is one of the editors of Local Government Studies.