Moisés Naím

Naím during the WEF 2013

Moisés Naím (* 1952 in Libya ) is a Venezuelan journalist and politician. He has been editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine since 2000 . He was Minister of Commerce and Industry of Venezuela and Executive Director of the World Bank from 1992 to 1994 .

biography

Naím was born in Libya in 1952. After six generations, his Jewish family emigrated to Venezuela in 1956. He studied in Caracas and at MIT in the USA . He graduated with a PhD and a master's degree. After graduating, he was a professor and dean at IESA, a business school and research center in Caracas. In the early 1990s he was Minister of Trade and Industry of Venezuela. From 1992 to 1994 he was appointed to the post of Executive Director of the World Bank. He led studies on economic reform at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . Since 2000 he has been editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine . In 2005 he gained a little more prominence with his book The Black Book of Globalized Crime .

Naím regularly writes columns for the Financial Times , El País , Newsweek , Corriere della Sera, among others . He is one of six members of Time Magazine's group of international economists and chairman of the Group of Fifty , an organization that manages Latin America's largest corporations.

Works

• Moisés Naím: The Black Book of Globalized Crime - Drugs, Arms, Human Trafficking, Money Laundering, Brand Piracy. Piper Verlag GmbH, Munich October 2005, ISBN 3-492-04790-4 , (original title: Illicit , translated by Thomas Pfeiffer, Helmut Dierlamm).

Web links

• Moisés Naím. moisesnaim.com - Official website