Hector E. Schamis teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies and Democracy & Governance Program. He also is a weekly columnist for El País (Madrid) and a frequent contributor to Clarín (Buenos Aires), Infobae (Buenos Aires), El Nacional (Caracas), CNN, NTN24 and other media organizations.
Dr. Schamis previously taught at Brown and Cornell universities. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, Cambridge University, and the Central European University in Budapest. He is the author of Re-Forming the State: The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe (University of Michigan Press) and a variety of journal articles and book chapters on authoritarianism, populism, democratization, human rights and press freedom.
In addition to his teaching and publication record, he has worked as a consultant in the design and implementation of programs and workshops on corruption, privatization strategies, and electoral administration in new democracies in partnership with governments, donors, universities, and international agencies. He currently is an advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
A native of Argentina, he received his PhD in political science from Columbia University.
