Research Associate
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Contact info
[email protected]
[+39] 055 4685 837
Office
Villa Raimondi, VR024
Working languages
Spanish, English, Italian
María del Carmen is a Senior Research Associate at the Florence School of Banking and Finance, a programme of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute. She contributes to the scientific design, teaching activities and coordination of training programmes offered by the school. María holds a PhD in Political Science (Universität Siegen) and an Executive Master’s in European Union Studies (ULB). Her research interests include the EU’s economic and financial governance architecture, political economy of European integration, central banking and sustainability, and sustainable finance. Since 2023 she leads the Central Banking and Banking Supervision Executive Education Programme in partnership with the European Central Bank.She previously worked in legal and public affairs at the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute–European Savings and Retail Banking Group and in the Economic and Commercial Affairs Unit at the Mission of Mexico to the EU in Brussels. She has been a visiting researcher at the Centre d’Étude de la Vie Politique (ULB), a member of the Global Scanning Network at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and a lecturer in European Union Studies and International Relations at the University of Siegen and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.