Moisés Naím is a member of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s Advisory Council. He is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author, and an internationally syndicated columnist. He is also the host and producer of Efecto Naím, a weekly television program on international affairs that airs throughout the Americas. The show won an Emmy in 2018. Naím was previously Venezuela’s minister of development, director of its central bank, and an executive director at the World Bank. From 1996 to 2010, he was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine.
Naím is the author of many scholarly articles and over fifteen books on international affairs, economics, and politics, including Illicit and The End of Power which were selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as best books of the year. In 2022, he published The Revenge of Power which the New Yorker highlighted as one of the best books of 2022. Naím has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Washington, DC, with his family.