Programs and Events

Dr. Riordan Roett lectures on "Ways to Improve the Investment Climate in Panama"

August 4-5

Dr. Roett lecturing at the University of Louisville on "Ways to Improve the Investment Climate in Panama"

Dr. Riordan Roett is the Santa and Don Johnston Professor of Political Science and Director of the Western Hemisphere Program at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.

From 1983 to 1995, he served as a consultant to the Chase Manhattan Bank in various capacities; in 1994-1995 he was the Senior Political Analyst in the Emerging Markets Division of the bank´s International Capital Markets Group. From 1989 to 1997, he served as a Faculty Fellow of the World Economic Forum at the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Since 1999, Dr. Roett has served as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council of the Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Roett is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of mutual funds at Citigroup/Salomon Asset Management, including Salomon Brothers Global Partners Income Fund, Inc., the Worldwide Income Fund, Inc., 2008 Worldwide Dollar Government Term Trust, Inc,. the Emerging Markets Floating Rate Fund, Inc., and the Latin American Investnment Fund, Inc. at Credit Suisse Asset Management.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and is a former national president of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). In 2001, the President of Brazil named Dr. Roett to the Order of Rio Branco with the rank of Commander. Among his publications are Latin America in a Changing Global Environment (forthcoming 2003, co-editor and co-author); Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America (forthcoming 2003, co-editor and co-author); Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America (co-editor and co-author); Mercosur: Regional lntegration, World Markets (editor and co-author); Brazil Under Cardoso (co-editor and co-author); Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society, 5th ed.; Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy (co-author); The Mexican Peso Crisis: International Perspectives (editor and co-author), and Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico (editor and co-author. He received his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University.