Dr.
Vanessa Neumann is a Senior Fellow at the
Foreign Policy Research Institute, where she is a specialist in Latin America and terrorism.
She is also an Associate of the University Seminar on Latin America at the Institute of Latin American Studies, located a at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, and Editor-at-Large of Diplomat, a London-based magazine to the diplomatic community.
She received her Ph.D. in political philosophy from Columbia University for her dissertation: The Autonomy and Legitimacy of States: A Critical Approach to Foreign Intervention.
From 2005-2007, Dr. Neumann was Assistant Professor of political philosophy at Hunter College of The City University of New York, while consulting for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) on armed conflict in Colombia and working with Prof. Thomas Pogge at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) in Canberra, Australia, on the alleviation of extreme poverty.
Dr. Neumann has also worked in corporate planning and corporate finance in Caracas, as well as in diplomacy, as Assistant to the Commercial Attaché and the Minister Counselor for Petroleum and Economic Affairs at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC.
A native Venezuelan, Dr. Neumann has worked as a journalist in Caracas, London and the United States. She is Editor-at-Large of Diplomat, 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, been interviewed for The New York Times, the BBC, Al Jazeera English and Caracol radio, and spoken on Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution at Columbia and Yale Universities.
Just about the only thing Venezuelans want to talk about, it sometimes seems, is Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan researcher Vanessa Naumann cares about Chavez, but she specializes in narco-war and Latin American terrorism. Hear how the subects connect in this Indiana Council on World Affairs event.
