Consuelo Naranjo Orovio is a research professor at the Institute of History of the CSIC in Spain. Between 2011 and 2019 she was Director of the Institute of History of the CSIC, and Director of the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the CSIC between 2012-2013 and 2018-2019. She is a Foreign Corresponding Member of several academies: Academia de la Historia de Cuba, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and Academia Dominicana de la Historia.