Kinga Brudzińska is a senior research fellow for the Future of Europe Programme at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia. She received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Warsaw and an MA in Economics from the University of Economics in Krakow. She also holds a Diploma in Latin American Studies from TEC Monterrey in Mexico. She is an expert on the Spanish-speaking world, EU foreign policy and on issues of international democracy. She is author of chapters in books, articles in press and various analyses on the European Union and Latin America. She is an alumna of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Global Governance Network (Brazil 2014) and a senior fellow of the Humanity in Action and Lantos Foundation (US Program 2008 and the US House of Representatives 2009). Prior to joining GLOBSEC, she worked at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.