Charles Powell (historian)

Charles Tito Powell CMG (born 1960) is a Spanish-British historian who studied History and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.

[2] On moving to Spain in 1997, he was appointed deputy director of the Ortega y Gasset Foundation's Centro Español de Relaciones Internacionales (CERI).

In 2002 he joined the recently created Elcano Royal Institute, Spain's leading international relations think-tank, of which he is currently director.

[2] Since September of that year he is also Professor of Contemporary Spanish History at the CEU San Pablo University (Madrid).

Self-made monarch (Macmillan, 1996); and España en Democracia, 1975-2000 (Plaza & Janes, 2001), a general history of Spain since Franco's death which is widely regarded as the standard text on the period.