Iliana Olivié is Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute and Associate Professor in Applied and Structural Economics and History at the Complutense University of Madrid.
PhD in Economics, she is also vice-president for policy engagement of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and Director of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG).
University of affiliation
Research areas: She works on the global development agendas, European aid policies, international development finance and the relations of the EU with the Global South.
Selected publications: “FfD4 as a Turning Point: Overcoming Challenges to Strengthen Sustainable Development Finance” (with Damien Barchiche, Ben Katoka, Karim Karaki, Niels Keijzer and María Santillán O’Shea, ETTG, 2025); “Academic Debate and Self-Criticism: Embracing Diversity at the Core of Development Studies” (with Antonio Sianes and María Santillán O’Shea, European Journal of Development Research, 2025); “Third ETTG Annual Dialogue on the EU and Global Development” (with Daniele Fattibene and María Santillán O’Shea, ETTG, 2024); “Influencing Aid Policy: Perceptions of How Member States Shape EU Development Cooperation” (with María Santillán O’Shea, European Journal of Development Research 36: 1074-1092, 2024), “A common future for Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean” (with María Santillán O’Shea (cords), ETTG, 2024).
Events
- Roundtable ‘Development aid in turbulent times’ (2025)
- Assessing the implications of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine for Africa and Europe-Africa relations (2022)
- Presentation of the Elcano Global Presence Report 2022 (2022)
- Workshop Elcano-ETTG: ‘The future of the EU as global development actor’ (2022)
