Editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine, Moisés Naím heads one of the world's leading publications on international politics and economics and winner of the 2003 National Magazine Award for general excellence. Foreign Policy circulates in 161 countries and is simultaneously published in eight different languages.  Dr Naim has written extensively on international political economy, economic development, international finance, world politics, and globalization's unintended consequences. His regular opinion columns appear in the Financial Times, El Pais, The New York Times, Newsweek, Corriere della Sera, Le Monde, Berliner Zeitung and many other internationally-recognized newspapers and magazines. He is the author or editor of eight books including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy, a best seller selected by The Washington Post as one of the best nonfiction books of 2005. Illicit is published in over 12 languages and is the subject of a two-hour TV special produced by National Geographic Film and Television for worldwide broadcasting.

Dr. Naím is one of six members of Time magazine's board of international economists and he is also the Chairman of the Group of Fifty, a select network of CEO's of Latin America's largest corporations. Dr. Naím previously served as an executive director at the World Bank and directed policy studies on economic reforms at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry in the early 1990's. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at IESA, a busines school and research center in Caracas.