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 of Switzerland. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally-syndicated columnist, and a best-selling author of 15 books, including “The End of Power” and “Illicit". In 2013, “The End of Power” was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year. Naím recently published his first novel “Two Spies in Caracas”.
In 2011, he received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Journalism award and, in 2018, won an Emmy award for his television program “Efecto Naim”. He was also the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Under his leadership, the magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence three times and became one of the world’s most influential publications in international affairs.
Naím has served as Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela’s Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a Professor and Dean of IESA, Venezuela’s main business school.