Daniel Zovatto

Global Fellow, Latin America Program, Wilson Center

Global Fellow. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Latin America Program. Washington D.C., USA. Senior Researcher at the Center for International Studies at the Catholic University of Chile.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Latin America Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (United States of America). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Foreign Affairs in Spanish, and a member of the Argentine Council on International Relations (CARI). He is a former member of the International Advisory Board of the Governance Index for Africa of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Until 2020, he was a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

In Argentina, he is a Corresponding Academic of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Córdoba, and of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Consulting Member of the Argentine Council for International Relations. Former advisor (2015), by invitation of President Michelle Bachelet, of the Presidential Advisory Council against conflicts of interest, influence peddling and corruption, Chile. Former Regional Director of IDEA International for Latin America and the Caribbean. Former Executive Director of CAPEL.

Former Deputy Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. He is an international analyst, lecturer and columnist for CNN in Spanish and a frequent contributor to various Latin American newspapers and El País (Spain), as well as radio and television programs in numerous countries in the region.

Author of 40 books (as author, co-author, editor, coordinator or compiler) and more than 100 articles on issues related to elections, democracy and governance, as well as those related to elections, governance and democracy in Latin America.

In 2014, EsGlobal of Spain included him in its list of the 50 most influential Ibero-American intellectuals.