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Dr. Raquel Galindo Dorado achieved her Ph.D. at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she graduated Cum Laude in Economics and Business Administration. In 2003, having completed her doctorate degree, she arrived in Cambridge to the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard, when she entered the Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government to complete her post- doctorate. As a fellow and visiting scholar at the Kennedy School, she spent two years in Cambridge before returning to Spain to rejoin her Alma Mater. Since then, she is an Associate Professor of masters programs in Economics, Auditing and Accounting at the School of Business and Economic Sciences. She has complemented this facet as a professor acting as visiting professor at universities in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia.

Although she has spent half her life in Spain, Raquel was born in born in Colombia. Therefore, her professional interests are split between European and Latin American affairs. In the European environment, she works as an expert evaluator of European Community economics, developing technical assistance programs, and engaging in their financial management. She also works in management and development for academic institutions, foundations, and institutes in Spain, bringing her expertise to achieve progress in the institutions. Finally, she has engaged in auditing for social public enterprises with Price Waterhouse.

Although she served her native Latin America through her work in cooperation for the EU, she also stays connected with projects that foster the advancement of academic institutions throughout the continent, focusing on the professorate and research programs. Through the relationship she developed in Harvard with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Real Colegio Complutense, she was able to set forth a series of symposia that have taken place during the last five years to today in Cambridge This year, building on the success of all previous cycles, she returns to Harvard for the III Research Symposium for Spanish and Latin-American Academics.