Susanne Gratius

Professor of International Relations at the Law Faculty of the Autonomous University of Madrid. She was senior researcher at FRIDE from 2005 to 2013 and associate professor for international relations at the Complutense University of Madrid. Prior to her current position, she worked as a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin and at the Ibero-American Studies Institute (IIK, now GIGA) in Hamburg. Until 1999, she was coordinator at the European-Latin American Relations Institute (IRELA), Madrid. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hamburg and the Complutense University of Madrid.

Her research focuses on EU-Latin American relations, EU/Spain and Latin American foreign policy, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, and emerging powers.