Jorge Heine is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. From 2019 to 2025 he was a research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and from 2018 to 2019 he was a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. A former Cabinet minister in the Chilean government, he also served as ambassador to China, to India, and to South Africa. A past vice president of the International Political Science Association, he was the CIGI Professor of Global Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University from 2007 to 2017, and has held visiting appointments at the universities of Konstanz, Oxford, Paris, and Tsinghua. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for International Governance Innovation, the Social Science Research Council, and the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
He serves on the board of Diplomats Without Borders, an entity he co-founded. He is on the advisory boards of The Polish Political Science Yearbook, Journal of World Affairs, Global Affairs, and the South African Journal of International Affairs. He has published 18 books, including The Non-Aligned World: Striking Out in an Era of Great Power Competition (2025), Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order: The Active Non-Alignment Option (2024), 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (2013), Fixing Haiti: Minustah and Beyond (2011), The Dark Side of Globalization (2011), and some 120 book chapters and articles in academic journals.
A frequent commentator on international affairs, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, and Miami Herald, and has been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, and NPR, among other international media. He holds a law degree from the University of Chile and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. In 2023, he received the Adil Najam Prize from Boston University’s Pardee School for his contribution to the enhancement of public understanding of global policy issues.
