Susanne Gratius is a senior researcher at FRIDE since 2005. She currently holds the Senior Fellowship for Iberian studies (2013-2015) established by FRIDE and the Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik (SWP) (2013-2015) and is an Associated Professor for international relations at the Complutense University in Madrid.

Prior to joining the organisation, she worked as a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, and at the Ibero-American Studies Institute (IIK, now GIGA), 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 University Complutense of Madrid.

Her research focuses on EU-Latin American relations, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, and emerging powers. Amongst her latest publications are ‘El triángulo atlántico: arquitecturas multilaterales y reajuste de poder entre nuevas y viejas potencias’, in: Pensamiento Iberoamericano 8, 2011/1, pp. 3-23; (with José Antonio Sanahuja), ‘Europa y América Latina: entre el olvido y la renovación’, in: Política Exterior 135, May-June 2010, pp. 122-136; ‘La política de la Unión Europea en el triángulo Cuba, EE.UU., España’, in: Temas 62-63 (Cuba-United States), 2010; (with Thomas Legler), ‘Latin America is different: transatlantic discord on how to promote democracy in “problematic countries” ’, in: A. Magen, T. Risse y M. McFaul (eds.), Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law: American and European Strategies, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2009, pp. 185-216.