Prof. Mariana Llanos, an expert on political institutions in Latin America from the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), delivered her lecture to the students as part of the Contemporary Latin America course taught at Center for Ibero-American Studies by Dr. Radek Buben.
Mariana Llanos is a Lead Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and holds an extraordinary professorship in Democratic Institutions in the Global South at the Universität Erfurt. She previously served as Head of GIGA’s Research Program “Accountability and Participation” (2015–2022) and was co-Director of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies (ad interim, 2023–2025).
In addition, she also holds the position of ERA Chair in the ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies Project at Filozoficka fakulta Univerzity Karlovy.
She earned her D.Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford and has published extensively on Latin American comparative political institutions, presidentialism, judicial politics, and executive–legislative relations. Her most recent research focuses on court-president relations and the personalization of political power. She is the recipient of two APSA awards for her work on comparative politics and executive institutions.
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