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Background
Jorge Heine holds the Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). From 2006 to 2009 he served as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), whose XXI World Congress of Political Science, the largest ever, with 2450 participants from 75 countries, was held in his native Santiago in July 2009.
From 2003 to 2007 he was Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and served previously (1994-1999) as Ambassador to South Africa. He has also served as a Cabinet Minister and Deputy Minister in the Chilean Government. He has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Research Associate at The Wilson Center in Washington DC.
He is author, co-author or editor of eleven books and has published some eighty journal articles and book chapters. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune.He was the first ambassador to present credentials to President Nelson Mandela. In 1997 and 1998, Johannesburg’s leading daily, The Star, listed him among the 100 most influential personalities in South Africa.
Select Publications
- "The elephant in the war: India and the Afghan-Pakistan link" (with Partha Ghosh), Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 17:1 (March 2011).
- "The other BRIC in Latin America: India: (with R. Viswanathan), Americas Quarterly, 5:2 (April 2011).
- Fixing Haiti: MINUSTAH and Beyond (with Andrew S. Thompson), UN University Press, forthcoming, 2011.
- The Dark Side of Globalization (with Ramesh Thakur), UN University Press, 2011.
- “Will they have table manners? The G20, emerging powers and global responsibility”, South African Journal of International Affairs 17:1, April 2010.
- Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization (with Andrew F. Cooper), UN University Press, 2009.
- “On the Manner of Practising the New Diplomacy”, CIGI Working Paper # 11, October 2006.
Academic/Professional Awards
- Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz, Germany 2012
- Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2011.
- Chair, International Jury, Luciano Tomassini Latin American IR Award, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2011-
- Hansen-Hostler Lecturer, California State University, San Diego. 2011
- Winegard Visiting Lecturer in International Development, University of Guelph, 2011.
- Listed among Canada’s ten most influential Hispanics, 2010
- Member, Strategic Advisory Group, United Nations Development Program-Latin America, 2010-
- Faculty Mentor, Department of Political Science, University of Konstanz, 2010
- Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2009-2010
- Oliver Tambo Lecturer, Delhi University, 2005.
