Carlos Malamud is principal investigator at the Elcano Royal Institute and Professor of History of America at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). A member of the National Academy of History of Argentina, he has been selected as one of the"50 most influential Ibero-American intellectuals"according to Esglobal. It has beenSenior Associate Member (SAM) in the Saint Antony's College, University of Oxford (1992/93), and visiting researcher at the University of Los Andes (Corona Chair, 2003) and Di Tella University. Between 1996 and 2002, he was deputy director of the Ortega y Gasset University Institute, and director of its Latin America program. From 2000 to 2002, he was director of the Observatory of Security and Defense in Latin America at the same institute and deputy director of the Latin American Electoral Observatory of Nueva Mayoría. Doctor in American History from the Complutense University of Madrid, he began his academic career researching the economic history of the colonial period of Spain and Latin America, and then specialized in the political history of Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has been a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and San Pablo CEU. Member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Culture of the MAPFRE Foundation. He currently combines his work as a historian with that of a political analyst and international relations specialist for Latin America. (Source:http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_es/biografia/?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcanov2_es/elcanov2/investigadores/carlos-malamud)