Grace Jaramillo

Grace Jaramillo is Lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program, as well as Honorary Research Associate. Her research tackles one of the long-standing issues of development: industrial and trade policy in the Global South and its capacity to help or hinder vulnerable population out of poverty. Immediately after earning her PhD, she won the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to study institutional spillovers of Free Trade Agreements in the Americas, spending the first year at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at University of Waterloo, and then moving this research project to UBC to complete her analysis studying the Transpacific Partnership and CUSMA negotiations. However, the most important contributions have been in qualitative methods for public policy analysis, including a chapter in the Handbook of Methods for Comparative Policy Analysis and an entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Public Administration. Her latest contribution has been Challenges to Democracies in the Andes (2023), alongside Max Cameron. Her time at Oxford will be dedicated to writing a book about the political economy of industrial policy in the Andes in the last 50 years.  

Before moving to Canada, she was an accomplished International Relations expert and 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. 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. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh.