A conversation between Christopher Sabatini, professor of international relations and public policy at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University (SIPA) and Robert Funk, professor of political science at the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Chile,the political scenarios surrounding presidential elections in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. Also the future of Peru will be approached after the fall of PPK, the new one (or not so new?) Was that it is coming to inaugurate Diaz-Canel in Cuba, and the political prospects for the regime of Maduro in Venezuela after the (supposed) elections of May 20.
Date: Wednesday May 30
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Place: FLACSO Auditorium. Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3269, Vitacura. *
Outside of teaching at SIPA, Christopher Sabatini is founder and executive director of the Global Americans organization as well as the editor of his news and opinion website. With the support of the National Fund for Democracy (NED) and the Ford Foundation, Global Americans conducts research on social inclusion, foreign policy, democracy and human rights. Sabatini is a member of the advisory councils of LASPAU of Harvard University and the Inter-American Foundation, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Axios Expert Voices and World Politics Review. From 2005 to 2014 he was director of public policies at Americas Society and Council of the Americas (AS / COA ) and founder and editor-in-chief of the hemispheric policy magazine, Americas Quarterly (AQ).
In addition to teaching and research, Robert Funk is a regular columnist in the Capital Magazine and a frequent commentator on radio and television, both nationally and internationally. He is editor of the Political Journal of the University of Chile, was president of the Chilean Association of Political Science (2006-2008), and has been a guest researcher at the University of Miami and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University. He obtained his PhD in Government at the London School of Economics and his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, in Canada.
