Michael Shifter

Michael Shifter
President of the Inter-American Dialogue
Incumbent
Assumed office April 2010
Preceded by	Peter Hakim
Personal details
Education	Oberlin College (BA) Harvard University (MA)

Michael E. Shifter is president of the Inter-American Dialogue and an adjunct professor of Latin American studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.^[1] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations^[1] and writes for the council's journal Foreign Affairs.^[2] He is also a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and a contributing editor to Current History.^[1]

Shifter has served on the board of directors of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch in the Americas Division, and the advisory board of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University,^[3] as well as the Social Science Foundation of the Graduate School of International Relations at the University of Denver.

Shifter writes and talks widely on US-Latin American relations and hemispheric affairs. His recent articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Journal of Democracy, Harvard International Review and other publications. His writings on democratic governance, multilateralism, drug policy, security issues, and politics in the Andean countries have also been published in many Latin American newspapers and magazines, including Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Panama, and Jamaica. He is co-editor, along with Jorge Domínguez, of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, published by Johns Hopkins University Press and now in its third edition. Shifter has lectured about hemispheric policy at leading universities in Latin America and Europe.