Susanne Gratius is a senior researcher at the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), Spain, and Associate Professor at the Complutense University in Madrid. She is an expert on Latin America and her research also focuses on EU-relations with emerging powers. In the project, Susanne works on EU-Brazil relations, aspects of South-South Cooperation, Spanish energy policy and the energy-climate change nexus.