Moisés Naím
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Moisés Naím (born 1952, Libya) is a Venezuelan economist and 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. His opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El País, Newsweek, Corriere della Sera, L'Espresso, TIME, Le Monde, Berliner Zeitung, and many other internationally recognized publications.
He is the author or editor of eight books, including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy, a best seller selected by the Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2005. Illicit is published in 18 languages and is the subject of a two-hour TV special produced by National Geographic Film and Television for worldwide broadcasting.
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. 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.
Dr. Naím is a member of the World Economic Forum's International Media Council which is composed of the 100 most influential media figures in the world. He is also the Chairman of the Group of Fifty, an organization of the CEOs of Latin America’s largest corporations.
Naím holds a Ph.D. and a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Naim argued in early 2003 that the world could no longer afford to ignore the political situation in Venezuela. 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]
- Director, National Endowment for Democracy
[edit] Books
- Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy ISBN 978-1400078844, Anchor, October 2006.
- Paper Tigers and Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms ISBN 978-0870030260, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 1993.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Naim, Moises. "Venezuela gets a hand from nimble Castro." Financial Times 21 Jan. 2003: 12.
