Anna Ayuso is Senior Research Fellow on Latin America at CIDOB Barcelona and Associate Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). She holds a PhD in International Law and a Master in European Studies both from UAB. She is also a Member of the Academic Council of FLACSO-Spain and has been a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions in Brazil, Mexico, UK, and Germany. Her research interests cover regional integration, EU-Latin American relations, inequality and social innovation, and urban development policy.
Andreas Falke is Professor of International Relations and Chair of US and International Studies at Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is also the Director of the German-American Institute (DAI) in Nuremberg. He was Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution, Washington, DC and a Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University. Prof. Falke also worked for several years in the Department of Public Relations at the US Embassy in Bonn. His research interests include US Politics and Society, US foreign policy, India’s policy and economy, International trade policy with a focus on the United States, and Transatlantic Economic Relations.
Gian Luca Gardini joined Friedrich Alexander University in 2014 as Chair of International Business and Society Relations with focus on Latin America. He has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. He holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the international relations of Latin America, foreign policy analysis, comparative regional integration, and international organization. His recent books are Latin America in the 21st Century, Zed Books (2012), and Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil (Palgrave, 2016). In 2012 he was seconded to the Chilean Foreign Ministry working in the team that organised the EU-CELAC Summit.
Susanne Gratius is a lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid and associated senior researcher at CIDOB, Barcelona. Previously, she was Associated Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at the Complutense University in Madrid and Researcher at the FRIDE Foundation in Madrid. Her professional career included a broad experience as a researcher in several European think-tanks (GIGA-Hamburg, SWP-Berlin, IRELA-Madrid), teaching commitments in German, English, and Spanish at undergraduate and master level of public and private Universities. She was also an international consultant for the European Union, public or international agencies in Germany (GIZ, BMZ, AA, EU-LAC Foundation) and Spain (MAEC, SEGIB).
Simon Koschut is Visiting Professor in International Relations and European Integration at the Otto Suhr Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin. Previously, he was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He has published on regionalism and regional security governance in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Millennium, Review of International Studies, and Cooperation and Conflict and is the author of Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration: Undoing Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Andrés Malamud is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where he chairs the PhD program in Comparative Politics. He obtained his PhD from European University Institute in 2003. He is a recurring visiting professor at universities in Buenos Aires, Milan, Salamanca and São Paulo, and has been visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute of International Law (Heidelberg) and the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include comparative regional integration, foreign policy, democracy, and political institutions, EU Studies, and Latin American politics. He is the current secretary-general of the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP).
Frank Mattheis is Research Fellow at the Institut D’Etudes Européennes (IEE), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is trained in global studies (MA, PhD) and works on governance structures beyond the nation state in the fields of comparative regionalism and interregionalism. Frank Mattheis has been involved in various books on the subject, such The New Politics of Regionalism (Routledge, 2017) and Interregionalism across the Atlantic Space (Springer, 2018).
Nelia Miguel Müller is Assistant Professor and a PhD candidate at the Chair of International Business and Society Relations with Focus on Latin America at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. She holds two Bachelor degrees: in History and Political Science (2007-2010), and in Social Sciences and Economics (2009-2013). She also obtained a Master in Political Science (2014) at the Friedrich-Alexander University. Her research focuses on Brazil-European Union relations, Brazil’s Latin American policy, and the presence of extra-hemispheric powers in Latin America.
Gonzalo S. Paz is Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University. He holds a MA and PhD in Political Science from George Washington University, and also a Law Degree and a MA in International Relations from National University of Córdoba. He taught at George Washington University, American University and University of Maryland. He was a Visiting Professor at Stockholm University, Università Roma Tre, Tel Aviv University and University of Guadalajara. He has worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Organization of American States (OAS). He specializes in international relations, comparative politics and political economy.
Christina Stolte is Assistant Professor at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Dr. Stolte obtained her PhD at the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS). She worked as desk officer for Brazil at the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin (2010–2011) and was a visiting fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI) in Rio de Janeiro (2013–2014). Her research focuses on the rise of new powers in the international system. She has published extensively on Brazilian foreign policy and South-South cooperation. Her major book is Brazil’s Africa strategy (Palgrave, 2015).
Mario Torres Jarrín is Director of the European Institute of International Studies (Spain-Sweden). He is also Associate Scholar in the Institute of Latin American Studies at Stockholm University (Sweden), and the Executive Secretary of the IBERO-EURO-AMERICA Consortium. He is a member of the Bi-Regional Council of the Latin America and Caribbean-EU Academic Forum. He holds a PhD in History and a Master of EU Studies both from University of Salamanca (Spain). His research interests include EU foreign affairs, EU & Latin American relations, and global governance.
Sara Ruiz Valverde teaches Spanish in the Language Centre at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg. She holds a BA in musicology from the Complutense University in Madrid and an MA in interpreting and translating from the University of Seville. Before joining FAU Sara Ruiz taught foreign languages at the University of Halcalá de Henares in Spain. She has published several works on musicology, and she has worked as a specialized translator for Oxford University Press. Her interest in linguistics focuses on business communication, and discourse and sentiment analysis.