Grace Jaramillo is a core lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s School of Global and International Affairs. She specializes in international political economy and, more specifically, Latin American political economy. Her latest publication, co-edited with Maxwell Cameron, Challenges to Democracy in the Andes, was launched officially at the Organization of American States in January 2023. Jaramillo is the author of various books and publications, including three edited volumes on international relations theory, comparative regionalism, and about the peace mediation experience of the Carter Group Building Bridges between Ecuador and Colombia.

Before moving to Canada, she was head of the Department of International Relations at FLACSO-Ecuador, a branch of the largest Latin American graduate studies’ institution, with campuses in 13 countries. From 2008-2010, she was part of the Bilateral Dialogue Group at the Carter Center, created to promote peace and provide ad hoc good will mediation in the international border dispute between Colombia and Ecuador from 2008 to 2010. For this role, and her publications about crises in the Andean Region, she was nominated twice to the annual list of “20 most prominent young thinkers of Latin America” by CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America, and Brookings Institution. 

Jaramillo holds a PhD in political science from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in public affairs and international relations from the University of Pittsburgh, in addition to a certificate from the Institute of Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research (IQMR) from Syracuse University.

Jaramillo was an event speaker at the Dialogue.