Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo, Ph.D. was founder of the Latin American & Caribbean (LAC) Business and Studies Center at AAU and held founder’s rights to the university between 2019 and 2023. She holds an engineer’s degree in political economics with a specialization in the analysis of socio-economic data and a Ph.D. in Economic Policy from the University of Economics, Prague. She specializes in EU-Latin America relations.

Lourdes Gabriela Daza Aramayo, Ph.D. is the former executive director of the center for Latin American Studies at the University of Economics and previously a lecturer in the Department of Economics and International Relations at  this university. She is likewise a member of the Bi-Regional Academic Council of the Permanent Academic Forum Latin America and Caribbean-European Union.

Her research interests include EU & Latin America and the Caribbean, International Relations, International Trade, Trade Gender, Economy Policy, and Economic Analysis.