Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. She has a Law Degree and a Psychology Diploma from the Complutense University, Madrid. She joined the diplomatic career in October 1986. 

Ms. Betanzos has been the first Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Mali and Burkina Faso (2006-2008); Ambassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the OSCE in Vienna (2008-2011); Ambassador of Spain to the Republic of Portugal (2018-2023); Deputy Chief of Mission of Spain in Beijing (2012-2015); Counselor in the Permanent Spanish Representation to the UN (1996-1999); and Deputy Chief of Spanish Mission in Tripoli (1987-1989). 

At the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Spain, Ambassador Betanzos carried out various advisory and coordination tasks related to Immigration and Asylum issues within the EU cooperation framework and other multilateral organizations: Deputy Director General for Justice and Home Affairs at the Secretary of State of European Union, Deputy Director General for International Legal Cooperation in the Ministry of Justice, and advisory officer for the OSCE and the Council of Europe. 

Decorations: Cross of Police Merit with White Badge, Silver Cross of Civil Guard Merit, and Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (Republic of Mali), Great Cross of the Order of Merit (Republic of Portugal)

Matteo Garavoglia is Professor of Practice at the Department of International Relations and Research Director at the Center for China - EU Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. At the same time, he is Senior Research Associate within the SEESOX Programme of the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College) and Research Fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). His research work focuses on European integration, the European public sphere, European foreign policy and European Union - China relations. Previously, Matteo Garavoglia was visiting Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s Department of International Relations. He also served as the (at the time youngest) Italy Program Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Centre on the United States and Europe in Washington DC and as Adjunct Professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Matteo has also been Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC, Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, Research Fellow at the Centre d’Études Européennes de Sciences Po in Paris and Research Assistant at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Earlier on, he worked with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Matteo Garavoglia has been teaching or speaking at, amongst others, the University of Oxford, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Sciences Po Paris, the Hertie School of Governance, Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Heidelberg University, Vienna University of Economics, Bocconi University in Milan, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Tongji University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University, Schwarzman College and Renmin University in Beijing. His work has been published or quoted by, amongst others, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, National Interest, the Atlantic, Voice of America, ABC News, NBC News, National Public Radio, China Global Television Network, Bloomberg, Fortune, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Politico, Deutsche Welle, CNN, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and Southern China Morning Post. His latest book monograph “Mind the European Gap - Reconciling National Politics and Supranational Policy-Making” has been published by Springer Nature. A dual German and Italian citizen, Matteo Garavoglia lived in fourteen countries across four continents and speaks Italian, English, Spanish, French and some German. He lives between Beijing, Oxford, Barcelona and Berlin.