Jorge Heine is Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, a Distinguished Fellow at CIGI and Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. From 2006-09 he was a vice-president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and was previously Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (2003-2007), and Ambassador to South Africa (1994-1999) as well as a Cabinet minister and Deputy Minister in the Chilean Government. A lawyer and political scientist, he has been a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a research associate at The Wilson Center in Washington D.C. He has held postdoctoral fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has been a consultant to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation and Oxford Analytica. He is the author, co-author or editor of ten books, including The Dark Side of Globalization (with Ramesh Thakur, UN University Press, forthcoming, 2010) and Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization (with Andrew F. Cooper, UN University Press, 2009)

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