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Home Management Management Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide
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Understanding Latin America: A Decoding Guide
by Alfredo Toro Hardy
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AuthorAlfredo Toro Hardy
Publisher World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover
About the author
Alfredo Toro Hardy is a Venezuelan Diplomat, scholar and public intellectual. He graduated in Law from the Central University of Venezuela with master degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Central University of Venezuela, and postgraduate degrees from the University of Paris II and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, ENA. He is one of his country's most senior career diplomats, having served as Ambassador to Washington, London, Madrid, Brasilia, Santiago de Chile, Dublin and, currently, Singapore. As scholar he was Director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Associate Professor at the Simon Bol?var University in Caracas, where he was Director of the Centre for North American Studies and Co-ordinator of the Institute for Higher Latin American Studies. He has been a member of the Advising Committee of the Diplomatic Academy of London, a Fulbright Scholar and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Scholar. He has also been a member of the Bellagio Center Nominations Committee. A Visiting Professor at Princeton University, he has also taught at the universities of Brasilia and Barcelona and has lectured extensively at universities and think tanks in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Author of 18 books and co-author of 13 more on international affairs, he received the "Latino Book Award" (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) twice ? at the ExpoBook America fairs celebrated in Chicago and Los Angeles in 2003 and 2008, respectively. He has published nearly 30 papers in academic magazines, including the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He is a weekly columnist for Venezuela's leading newspaper El Universal and contributes frequently to written media from Latin America and Spain.