GRACE JARAMILLO

Accomplished professional with extensive expertise in strategic partnerships and multilateral network collaboration, specialising in international development and Latin America regional integration. Demonstrates proficiency in impact evaluation, foreign policy, and economic diplomacy, with a strong focus on industrial policy and productive development. Adept at designing and evaluating public policies, fostering innovation and knowledge creation, and advising ministerial bodies. Skilled in governance, risk management, stakeholder negotiation, and consensus building to drive green economy policies. Committed to advancing impactful solutions through effective governance and strategic advisory services.

• Member of the prestigious China-West Dialogue, now known as Changing World Dialogue spearheaded by The Brookings Institution, Centre for International Policy Innovation (CIGI) and the G-20 Academic Advisory Board at the University of Toronto’s Munck School.
• Miembro de la Red de Economía Política para América Latina (REPAL) desde 2021.

• Advancing the rights of girls and women promotes justice and is also effective climate action en The Conversation UK, April 2024.
• “El no alineamiento activo en la práctica latinoamericana” en Revista AFESE 69: Temas Internationales, Noviembre 2024.
• “The CPTPP: A key strategic advantage for Japan to advance its leadership in the Pacific” (June 2021). Symposium Compendium, Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order: Impact and Policy Opportunities for Partners.
• Covid -19: An opportunity to re-think Latin America (dis)connection to Global Value Chains (January 2021). For the Italian Institute of International Political Studies – ISPI
• “Connecting Canada’s Innovative Supercluster Initiative ecosystem of incentives in the Asia Pacific through the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership,” winner of the 2019 edition of Canada’s International Policy Ideas Challenge.
• The CPTPP Tracker: Assessing Canada’s First Year of Participation in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (December 2019). Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis (2022) with Maxwell Cameron. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
• Latin America: Trade and culture at a crossroads (2019), International Journal of Cultural Policy IJCP, Vol. 25, Issue 5. DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2019.1626847

• 2025-ongoing: University of Oxford’s School of Global Affairs and The Technology and Innovation Centre for Development (TIDE). Visiting scholarship to conclude the manuscript for the book The political economy of industrial policy in the Andes, the cases of Ecuador and Peru. Imparted a seminar and a worked about the case for industrial policy and the connecting alliances to achieve policy innovation.
• 2025: Edinburg University’s School of Social and Political Science.
• 2024: Universidad del Pacífico, Perú. Escuela de Gobierno.
• 2019: Government of Canada's International Policy Ideas Challenge Award.
• 2017: Center for International Governance and Innovation, CIGI. Waterloo, Canada. Leading independent, non-partisan think tank conducting peer-reviewed research, foresight, and trusted analysis to innovate in public policy and public service delivery.
• 2016: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship to study Implementation policies in the Americas of free trade agreements: CUSMA, CAFTA-DR, CPTPP.