The Scientific Council is the Elcano Royal Institute’s consultative body, which advises its Director and researchers with the aim of ensuring the effective fulfilment of its founding goals, especially those related to research, the dissemination of the work carried out and the institution’s external relationships. It comprises outstanding Spanish and foreign figures drawn from the academic, political, diplomatic, business and media worlds, who share a recognised knowledge of international relations.
The Council meets periodically, at least once a year, although its members meet regularly with the Institute’s researchers and collaborators in working groups organised by specific areas, to draw up the reports and studies they deem appropriate.
Scientific Council Members
Professor of International Relations. Faculty of Political Science and Sociology
Complutense University of Madrid
Director, Department of National Security
Presidency of the Government of Spain
Deputy Director of the University Institute for European Studies
CEU San Pablo University
Director of the Master’s Degree in Forensic Criminal Dangerousness Profiles
University Rey Juan Carlos
Colonel of the Army, Diploma in General Staff
Director of the Division of Coordination and Studies of the General Secretariat for Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence of Spain
Professor of Public International Law
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
Ambassador of Spain to Iraq
Trade Technical Expert and State Economist
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
University of Castilla La Mancha
Vice-Chancellor for research and professor of Economics (chair of comparative economics in Asia)
National Institute for Oriental Language and Civilization (INALCO) - University of Sorbonne Paris Cité
Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History of Islam
Autonomous University of Madrid
Executive Vice President and Director
Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
Dean of IE School of Global and Public Affairs
Special Advisor to Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, and former Director-General of Department for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO)
European Commission
Ambassador of Spain
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Director of the Latin American Centre (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America & William Golding Senior Fellow of Brasenose
University of Oxford
Economist
Non-executive Director at Santander and Aviva, and Chair of the Board of Digital Future Society
Professor and Journalist
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Latin American Centre (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies). University of Oxford
Ambassador of Spain
Director
Fundación Internacional e Iberoamericana de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP)
Profesor of Political Sciences and Administration
Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville
Senior Associate. Democracy and Rule of Law Program.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Head of Project Geopolitics of Energy Transformation 2030 (GET 2030). Senior Associate. Global Issues Division
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP). German Institute for International and Security Affairs
(Updated: 24/11/2020)