Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo

Amaia Sánchez-Cacicedo is currently Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Asia Program, at Institut Montaigne. She is also Academic Co-ordinator at the Global Policy Center (GPC) at IE University in Madrid.

Prior to this, she was Non-Resident Associate Analyst in charge of the South Asia portfolio at the EUISS. She contributes to the analysis of South Asian security and foreign policy with an emphasis on geo-economic and security developments across the Indian Ocean. She further monitors EU relations with emerging powers. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and completed her PhD at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London, which culminated in her book Building States, Building Peace: Global and Regional Involvement in Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Amaia has taught courses on security, as well as on the international relations of Asia at IE University, SOAS and the University of Zurich. She has also worked for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Costa Rica, Kenya and Sri Lanka.