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Professor Schamis's research has led him to collaborate on projects with the United Nations Commission for Latin America and the Inter-American Development Bank. Before becoming a professor at Georgetown University, Dr. Schamis taught at Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.
He is a recognized academic, media, and policy profile, and practitioner in the areas of democratization, human rights, economic development, and international security.
Hector has a track record in negotiation, design, and implementation of policies and programs on corruption, privatization strategies, and electoral administration in new democracies, in partnership with governments, donors, universities, and international agencies.
From 2017 to 2025 he served as a Special Envoy and Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
Hector teaches at Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Previously, he taught at Brown and Cornell Universities, and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the Central European University. He also is a weekly columnist for El País (Madrid) and a frequent contributor to Clarín (Buenos Aires), Infobae (Buenos Aires), El Nacional (Caracas), CNN, NTN24 and other media organizations.
He has also written in numerous academic journals such as Comparative Politics, World Politics and the Journal of Democracy.
In addition to his teaching and publication record, he has worked as a consultant in the design and implementation of programs and workshops on corruption, privatization strategies, and electoral administration in new democracies in partnership with governments, donors, universities, and international agencies.
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In addition to his weekly column in Spain's El País newspaper, Schamis has published articles in La Nación and Argentina's El Clarín newspaper.
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Hector E. Schamis teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies and Democracy & Governance Program.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge in England, a researcher at the Corporation for Latin American Research in Santiago, Chile, and at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He is the author of Re-Forming the State: The Politics of Privatization in Latin America and Europe (University of Michigan Press) and a variety of journal articles and book chapters on authoritarianism, populism, democratization, human rights and press freedom.
He has designed and implemented seminars and programs focused on corruption, privatization strategies, and electoral administration of new democracies for governments, universities, and international agencies.
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Professor Schamis has a PhD from Columbia University. Hector has authored books and academic articles on privatization and state reform, authoritarianism, populism, democratization and human rights, among other topics.He writes regularly for ABC (Madrid) and has been a weekly columnist and op-ed editor at El País América (Madrid), and an analyst at CNN and NTN24 among other organizations.
He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, Cambridge University, and the Central European University in Budapest. in political science from Columbia University.
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All Rights Reserved. His op-eds have appeared in The National Interest, Clarín, Infobae and La Nación (Buenos Aires), El Nacional (Caracas), Semana (Bogotá), Confidencial (Managua), La República (Bogotá), La República (Guayaquil) y Excelsior (Mexico), among other media outlets.
Hector received his Ph.D.
A native of Argentina, he received his PhD in political science from Columbia University.
Dr. He currently is an advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. Schamis previously taught at Brown and Cornell universities.