The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Directors' Seminar with Moses Naim, Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine and author of Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy.
In this position, Mr. Naim heads one of the world's leading publications on international politics and economics and winner of the 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence. Dr. Naím previously served as an executive director at the World Bank and directed policy studies on economic reforms at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry in the early 1990's. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at IESA, a business school and research center in Caracas.
Dr. Naim has written extensively on international political economy, economic development, world politics, and globalization's unintended consequences. His regular opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El Pais, Newsweek, Corriere della Serra, and many other internationally-recognized newspapers and magazines. He is the author or editor of eight books including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy, which is currently being published in 14 languages.
Dr. Naím is one of six members of Time magazine's board of international economists and he is also the Chairman of the Group of Fifty, an organization of the CEO's of Latin America's largest corporations.
Dr. Naím holds MSc and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
