Moisés Naím has been called ​“one of the world’s lead­ing thinkers” (Prospect Mag­a­zine) and has been ranked among the top 100 glob­al thought lead­ers by the Got­tlieb Dut­tweil­er Insti­tute. He is an inter­na­tion­al­ly syn­di­cat­ed colum­nist and the host and pro­duc­er of Efec­to Naím, an Emmy win­ning week­ly tele­vi­sion pro­gram on inter­na­tion­al affairs that has been aired through­out the Amer­i­c­as since 2012 via NTN24/​DirecTV.

Naím was the edi­tor-in-chief of For­eign Pol­i­cy mag­a­zine for 14 years and is the author of many schol­ar­ly arti­cles and 15 books on inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ics and pol­i­tics. In 2011, he received the Orte­ga y Gas­set prize, the most pres­ti­gious award for jour­nal­ism in the Span­ish lan­guage. His 2013 book, ​“The End of Pow­er”, a New York Times best­seller, was select­ed by the Wash­ing­ton Post and the Finan­cial Times as one of the best books of the year.

In the ear­ly 1990s, Naím served as Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of Trade and Indus­try, as direc­tor of Venezuela’s Cen­tral Bank, and as exec­u­tive direc­tor of the World Bank. He was pre­vi­ous­ly pro­fes­sor of busi­ness and eco­nom­ics and dean of IESA, Venezuela’s lead­ing busi­ness school. Dr. Naím holds MSc and PhD degrees from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy and lives in Wash­ing­ton, DC. For more infor­ma­tion vis­it https://​www​.moi​ses​naim​.com/.