MSc and PhD, MIT. Former: Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela; Director, Venezuela Central Bank; Exec. Director, World Bank; Prof. of Business and Economics, and Dean, IESA, Venezuela; Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy. Currently, Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace. Concurrently, Chief Int'l Columnist, El País and La Repubblica. Weekly columns also carried by newspapers internationally. Host and Producer, Efecto Naím, weekly TV magazine program on global issues. Chairman of the Board, Group of Fifty (G-50). Member of the Board of Directors of Fortune 100 companies. Author of many scholarly articles and more than fifteen books on international economics and politics. Including; Illicit (2005), The End of Power (2013), and the Revenge of Power (2022). Recipient: Ortega y Gasset prize, Emmy, National Magazine Award for General Excellence, others. Lives in Washington DC.