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Moisés Naím
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Moisés Naím

Venezuelan journalist and writer (born 1952)

Moisés Naím (born July 5, 1952) is a Venezuelan journalist and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.2

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Born Jul 5, 1952.1

About

Naím was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for 14 years (1996–2010). Since 2012, he has directed and hosted Efecto Naím, a weekly televised news program on the economy and international affairs that airs throughout the Americas on NTN24. In 2011, he received the Ortega y Gasset Award for his important contribution to journalism in the Spanish language.

He is the former Minister of Trade and Industry for Venezuela, director of its central bank, and executive director of the World Bank. Naím is also the founder and chairman of the Group of Fifty and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue, and the World Economic Forum.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversidad Metropolitana3
  • Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3

Naím studied at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. Following his undergraduate studies, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained both a Master of Science and doctorate degrees in the late 1970s. His dissertation was titled, "The Political Economy of Regulating Multinational Corporations".

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Career

Occupation: economist, journalist, politician, writer.6

  • Since 2013Board member, AES Corporation4
  • Date not recordedTrade minister of Venezuela5

Naím was the chief international columnist for El País. His column, "The Global Observer", was also published in Italy (La Repubblica), France (Slate.fr), and in the major newspapers of Latin America. For several years, he was a contributing editor to The Atlantic.

Naím's work has appeared in: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Time, Le Monde and Berliner Zeitung.

In 1996, Naím became the editor-in-chief of "Foreign Policy" magazine. While Naím worked there, Foreign Policy won the National Magazine Awards for General Excellence three times and it changed from being an academic quarterly to a bimonthly glossy. In 2008 the magazine was sold to The Washington Post Company. Naím remained editor-in-chief until 2010.

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Personal life

  • BornJul 5, 1952, Tripoli7
  • CitizenshipVenezuela8

Awards

  • Date not recordedOrtega y Gasset Awards9

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