CIGI Chair in International Governance and Distinguished Fellow

Expertise

Latin American Politics
South-South Relations
Multilateralism
Democratic Transitions
Transitional Justice

Education

University of Chile Law School (1972)
B.Phil in Modern Political Analysis, York University in England
M.A. and a PhD., Stanford University

Background

Jorge Heine is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and a CIGI Chair in International Governance cross-appointed to Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Previously, Dr. Heine served as Chile's Ambassador to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (2003-2007). He was previously Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), as well as a cabinet minister in the Chilean government. A lawyer and political scientist, he holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a Research Associate at The Wilson Center in Washington DC. He has held postdoctoral fellowships from SSRC and the Guggenheim Foundation and has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation and Oxford Analytica. He is the author, co-author or editor of eight books, including The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City (Pittsburgh University Press, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book of 1994), A Revolution Aborted: The Lessons of Grenada (Pittsburgh University Press, 1991) and, with Leslie Manigat, Cross Currents and Cleavages: International Relations of the Contemporary Caribbean (Holmes&Meier, 1988) and has published some sixty articles in journals and symposium volumes. His opinion pieces have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune. He was the first ambassador to present credentials to President Nelson Mandela, and for two years in a row (1997 and 1998), Johannesburg's leading newspaper, The Star, selected him among the 100 most influential personalities in South Africa.