Jorge Heine

Jorge Heine holds the Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). From 2006 to 2009 he served as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), whose XXI World Congress of Political Science, the largest ever, with 2450 participants from 75 countries, was held in his native Santiago in July 2009.

From 2003 to 2007 he was Ambassador of Chile to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and served previously (1994-1999) as Ambassador to South Africa. He has also served as a Cabinet Minister and Deputy Minister in the Chilean Government. He has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, and the Pablo Neruda Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Paris.

He is author, co-author or editor of thirteen books and has published some ninety journal articles and book chapters. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune.He was the first ambassador to present credentials to President Nelson Mandela. In 1997 and 1998, Johannesburg's leading daily, The Star, listed him among the 100 most influential personalities in South Africa.