Ambassador Jorge Heine

Ambassador Jorge Heine is Core Faculty in Diplomacy & Governance at the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, and a non-resident Wilson Center Global Fellow at The Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa (1994-1999), as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government, and as a past Vice President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He has published fifteen books, including 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas; and the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (with A. Cooper and R. Thakur, Oxford University Press, 2013,2015). He received his PhD from Stanford University.