Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a contributing editor to the Atlantic. He is the author of several books, including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy and The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be.
A former editor of Foreign Policy magazine, from 1989-1990 Naim served as Venezuelan Minister of Industry and Trade.
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