Moisés Naím
Venezuelan journalist and writer
Moisés Naím is a Venezuelan journalist and writer who edited Foreign Policy magazine for 14 years. He wrote The End of Power.
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Venezuelan Born 1952 in Tripoli, Libya
About Moisés Naím
Moisés Naím is a Venezuelan journalist, writer and columnist, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He edited Foreign Policy magazine from 1996 to 2010. Earlier in his career he served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry, as a director of its central bank, and as an executive director of the World Bank. He earned a master's degree and a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he has worked as a professor and dean at IESA, a major business school in Venezuela. Naím hosts Efecto Naím, a weekly television program on the economy and international affairs, which won an Emmy in 2018. He received the Ortega y Gasset journalism award in 2011. His book The End of Power was named one of the best books of 2013 by the Washington Post and the Financial Times. He has also written a novel, Two Spies in Caracas.