Peter Hakim
President Emeritus, Inter-American Dialogue
Mr. Hakim is president of
the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, DC-based center for policy analysis and
exchange on Western Hemisphere
affairs. He writes and speaks widely on
hemispheric issues, is regularly interviewed on radio and television, and has
testified more than a dozen times before Congress. His articles have appeared
in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, and Financial Times, and in many Latin
American newspapers and journals. He was
a vice president of the Inter-American Foundation and worked for the Ford
Foundation in both New York
and Latin America. He
has taught at MIT and Columbia. He has
served on boards and advisory committees for the World Bank, Council on
Competitiveness, Inter-American Development Bank, Foreign Affairs en Español,
Partners for Democratic Change, and Human Rights Watch. He is a member of the
Council of Foreign Relations.
Mr. Hakim earned a B.A. at Cornell University, an M.S. in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
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