Moiss Naím is editor and publisher of Foreign Policy. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade and investment, multilateral organizations, economic reforms, and globalization. He is the author or editor of nine books, numerous essays, professional articles and his opinion columns are regularly published in the world's leading newspapers.

Dr. Naím served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry and played a central role in the initial launching of major economic reforms in the early 1990s. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracin, in Caracas. He was also the director of the projects on economic reforms and on Latin America at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Executive Director at the World Bank.

Dr. Naím holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.