Grace Jaramillo is a sessional instructor with the UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs program, as well as an Honorary Research Associate with SPPGA. 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 a SSHRC 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 CPTPP and CUSMA negotiations. However, the most important contributions of her research have been in the area of 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 current interest is to study trade, investment and innovation and state capacity in the Anthropocene, including risk assessment during climate change adaptation. 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. The Carter Center invited her to become part of the Bilateral Dialogue Group 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. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Queen’s University and a master’s degree in Public Affairs and International Relations from University of Pittsburgh, in addition to a certificate from the Institute of Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research (IQMR) at Syracuse University.

Selected Publications

Cameron, M. A. & Jaramillo, G. (2022). Challenges to democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, broken constitutions, and regimes in crisis (1st ed.). Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

Jaramillo, G (2020). Archives in the study of public policy and administration. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press.

Jaramillo, G. (2020). Comparing historical cases: Advances in comparative historical research. In Peters, B. G., & Fontaine, G., Handbook of research methods and applications in comparative policy analysis, (pp. 113-133). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Jaramillo, G. (2019). Latin America: Trade and culture at a crossroads. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(5), 602-614.

Jaramillo, G. (2019). Rafael Correa’s foreign policy paradox: Discursive sovereignty, practical dependency. Assessing the left turn in Ecuador (pp. 325-349). Springer International Publishing.

Public Policy Contributions

The CPTPP: Japan’s key strategic advance to advance its leadership in the Pacific. Policy Paper prepared for the Simposium: Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order: Impact and Policy Opportunities for Partners. July 2020.

Policy Brief: Global Value Chains and the Post-Covid Economy. Assessing disruptions of global production lines and their impact to the Canadian economy. June, 2020.

Report: The CPTPP Tracker: Assessing Canada’s First Year of Participation. Contribution to the Asia Pacific Foundation. December, 2019

The crisis in Venezuela: Some fresh options. For the Centre for International and Defence Policy. June, 2019.

Selected Commentary and Analysis

On the eve of elections, Ecuador’s democracy teeters on the brink In The Globe and Mail. August 17, 2023

How Chavez planted the seeds of violence In The Globe and Mail. February 27, 2014
Is Daniel Noboa the Answer to Ecuador’s Need for Change? Interview in The New York Times, October 12, 2023
Contributions to The Latin American Advisor, a Daily publication by The Dialogue in Washington, DC.

Associations

International Studies Association

International Public Policy Association

Political Economy Network for Latin America – REPAL

Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies – CALACS