Jorge Tamames

Jorge Tamames is a Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute. He teaches International Political Economy at Pontificia Universidad Comillas and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, as well as contemporary Spanish politics at New York University’s Madrid campus. 

He has written academic articles and book chapters, including in Claves de política global (Arpa, 2024) and La desigualdad en España (Lengua de Trapo, 2024). He has published analysis and op-eds in Le Grand Continent, El País,  Agenda Pública, El Orden Mundial, The New Statesman, and Phenomenal World, among others.

He has worked as an advisor to the Minister of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs, and 2030 Agenda and as a managing editor at the foreign policy magazine Política Exterior.

He holds a PhD in political science from University College Dublin, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Brown University.

Research areas

Spanish foreign policy, European economic governance, the rise of anti-system parties, and the future of democracy across the European Union.

Selected publications

• Algo que hicimos juntos (Lengua de Trapo and Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2026).
• For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US (Lawrence Wishart, 2021).