​Coloquio Internacional​

​Andrés SERBIN

Andrés Serbin holds a Doctorate in Political Science and is currently the President of the Coordinadora Regional de InvestigacionesEconómicas y Sociales (CRIES), a Latin American and Caribbean network of NGOs and research centres; former Chair of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect, and an elected Councelor to the Board of the Argentine Council of International Relations (CARI). He is a founding member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) and of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), where he served twice as co-Chair of the Executive Committee and Chair of several Working Groups. He is currently the Chair of the Dialogue and Mediation Working Group of GPPAC. He is also a founding member, Executive Director (1988-1993) and current President Emeritus of the Board (1993-2015) of the Venezuelan Institute of Social and Economic Research (INVESP). He retired as Full Professor (Profesor Titular) of the Central University of Venezuela in 2001 and since 1990, holds the higher level (Categoría IV) as Emeritus Researcher at the Venezuelan National Council of Science and Technology (CONICYT). He has been Visiting Professor at several universities, including Warwick (Leverhulme Visiting Scholar) in U.K., Harvard (Fulbright Visiting Scholar), Florida International (Senior Associated Researcher), and Pennsilvania in the US, Universida de Estadual de Sao Paulo (UNESP) in Brazil, different programmes of FLACSO in Latin America, and Marseille/Aix-en-Provence and Sorbonne III (Simón Bolívar Chair) in France. He also served as Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Venezuela (1991-1993); Director of Caribbean Affairs with the Latin America Economic System (SELA) (1995-1997), and as a consultant to several regional and international organizations. Since 1997 he is the Director of the trilingual academic journal Pensamiento Propio, and one of the editors of the Latin American and Caribbean Integration Yearbook. He has authored several books both in Spanish and English, edited more than 30 collective volumes in both English and Spanish, and published more than 200 academic articles in Spanish, English, French, German and Russian. His most recent book in Spanish is Chávez, Venezuela y la reconfiguraciónpolítica de América Latina y el Caribe, Buenos Aires: Editorial Siglo XXI, 2011.