Adjunct Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid since 2018.
She has worked as an Advisor in the Congress of Deputies, the Presidency of the Government of Spain, the Department of National Security, the Community of Madrid, and, currently, in the Spanish Senate. Her responsibilities include analyzing the risks and opportunities of policies within each administration. She also collaborates with sectoral and institutional leaders. She also prepares position papers and technical reports. She also prepares interventions and speeches, position papers, and parliamentary initiatives.
She is a member of the Grupo Complutense de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos GEIS-UCM, UNISCI, and the Center for the Global Common Good at the Universidad de Valencia (UFV).
PhD in International Security and International Relations from the General Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute (UNED); European Master's Degree on Human Rights and Democratization from the European Inter-University Center (European consortium of 41 universities), Venice, Italy; Degree in Political Science and Administration from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; postgraduate programs in leadership at IESE Business School and Georgetown University.
Her main research areas are international security, with a special focus on North Africa, the Sahel, West Africa, and the Horn of Africa; as well as hybrid threats, organized crime, terrorism, climate change, demography, and migration movements. She has extensive teaching and research experience, as well as academic management, organizing academic events, publishing, participating in congresses and conferences, and tutoring academic papers.
Últimas publicaciones
- “Spanish Security Policy in the Greater Maghreb: Skeletons in the Closet, Commonplaces and Irrelevance”, en Garcia Cantalapiedra, D. Spain, Europe, and Western Security Policy. The Europeanization of Spanish Security and Defense Policy and its Limitations. Springer, 2024. Pp. 75-120.
- Gran Magreb: un complejo regional de seguridad a las puertas de Europa, en Seguridad y Defensa: relaciones entre la Unión Europea y el Magreb (Dykinson), pp. 195-224
- Complejo regional de seguridad y flujos migratorios en el Gran Magreb. Cuadernos de estrategia, Núm. 222, CESEDEN. pp. 275-305
- NATO and the Mediterranean: From the Southern Flank to the Other Front?, en Garcia Cantalapiedra, D. (ed). NATO and the Greater Maghreb: Geopolitics, Threats, and Great Powers (Lexington Books), pp. 7-23
- “Organized crime in Southeast Asia: Implications for regional security”, en Marquina, A. Southeast Asia: Redefined Strategic Order, Challenges and Impacts to Regional and Global Security (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.), pp. 137-171
- Hacia un «gran Magreb». La UE, la seguridad europea y el declive del concepto MENA. bie3: Boletín IEEE ( Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos), Núm. 18, pp. 982-1002 (con David Garcia Cantalapiedra)
- Norte de África y Sahel: repercusiones para la seguridad internacional, en El sistema internacional del siglo XXI: dinámicas, actores y relaciones internacionales (Tirant lo Blanch), pp. 457-480.