Federico Merke is an associate professor of international relations at the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. He is also a researcher for the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET). He studied International Relations at the Universidad del Salvador, did a Master of Arts in International Studies at the University of Warwick and a Doctorate in Social Sciences at Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) where he investigated the relationship between political identities and foreign policy in Argentina and Brazil. He was a Chevening Fellow of the British Council and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.

Merke was an event speaker at the Dialogue.