May 24, 2011

Vanessa Neumann Appointed FPRI Senior Fellow

The Foreign Policy Research Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Vanessa Neumann as an FPRI Senior Fellow, working on Latin America and terrorism.

A native Venezuelan, Dr. Neumann has worked as a journalist in Caracas, London and the United States. She is Editor-at-Large of Diplomat (www.diplomatmagazine.com). a London-based magazine to the diplomatic community and a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard on Latin American politics.

She has also written for The (London) Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint, and has been interviewed for The New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera English and Caracol radio.

Neumann is also an Associate of the University Seminar on Latin America at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in political philosophy.

Dr. Neumann has also worked in corporate planning and corporate finance in Caracas and, in diplomacy, as Assistant to the Commercial Attaché and the Minister Counselor for Petroleum and Economic Affairs at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC. She currently resides in New York City.

She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and has a working knowledge of German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.

The audio file of her May 2011 lecture at FPRI on Latin America and the Future of Chavismo can be accessed here:http://www.fpri.org/multimedia/20110506.neumann.latinamerica.html

Her FPRI E-Note on "The Middle Eastern-Latin American Terrorist Connection" can be accessed here: http://www.fpri.org/enotes/201105.neumann.latinamericanterrorist.html

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