Moisés Naím

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Moisés Naím is the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade, multilateral organizations, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization's unintended consequences. He is the author or editor of eight books, numerous essays, and publications; and his opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El País, Newsweek, Corriere della Sera, and many other internationally recognized publications.

Dr. Naím served as Venezuela’s Minister of Trade and Industry, and played a central role in the initial launching of major economic reforms in the early 1990s. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), in Caracas. He was also the director of the projects on economic reforms and on Latin America at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Naím was also associated with the World Bank on two occasions, first as an executive director and later as a senior advisor to the president.

He is currently one of six members of Time magazine's board of international economists and is also the Chairman of the Group of Fifty, an organization of the CEOs of Latin America’s largest corporations.

Dr. Naím holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Naim argued in early 2003 that the world could no longer afford to ignore Venezuela's deterioration. He stated that Washington had mattered little in the Venezuelan crisis, and that "Fidel Castro's Cuba ... (had) been far more influential in Caracas than George W. Bush's mighty US", with sustained and effective attention towards its goal of keeping Chávez in power.^[1]