SPEAKER BIOS

Roger Atwood

Roger Atwood was a Knight International Press Fellow in Venezuela in 2005. He is author of Stealing History (St. Martin's, 2004) and a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies.

Mary Dager

Mary Dager es abogado egresada de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello de Venezuela. Durante los últimos 30 años, la Dra. Dager ha desempeñado innumerables funciones en el sector público y financiero Venezolano. Actualmente es Director Ejecutivo Alterno por la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Centro América, España y México ante el Fondo Monetario Internacional.

Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner earned his Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in Latin American history and has taught at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela since 1977 and the political science graduate program of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) since 1994. He is the author of Organized Labor in Venezuela, 1958-1991: Behavior and Concerns in a Democratic Setting (1993) and Venezuela's Movimiento al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat to Innovative Politics (1988). He is co-editor of Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (2003) and The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika (1993). He is a frequent contributor to several journals and magazines, including Commonwealth and NACLA: Report on the Americas. Professor Ellner recieved the Academic Productivity Prize for Research from the Council of Scientific Development in 2004.

Dan Hellinger

Daniel Hellinger is professor of political science at Webster University, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of many articles on Venezuela, and his books include Venezuela: Tarnished Democracy (1991) and Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (2003), which he co-edited with Steve Ellner. He is a participating editor at Latin American Perspectives, for which he edited a volume on Venezuela. Among his areas of research on Venezuela is ‘oil politics’; he is currently doing research comparing the political economy of copper policy in Chile to oil policy in Venezuela. He has held two Fulbright positions in Chile and has been a visiting Senior Associate at St. Anthony’s College Oxford and the Center for Development Studies (CENDES) of the UCV.

Richard S. Hillman

Richard Hillman is professor of political science and director of the Institute for the Study of Democracy and Human Rights at St. John Fisher College. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Venezuela (1986, 1992, and 1996) and directed a partnership program (1997-2001) with the Central University of Venezuela. He is the author of Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela (1994), numerous articles and chapters on Venezuelan politics, and several books and articles on Latin America and the Caribbean.

For more information on the Venezuela Program at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University please contact Dr. Angelo Rivero-Santos via email at ar93@georgetown.edu.