Jorge Heine is a lawyer, diplomat and political scientist who specializes in the international politics of the Global South. He is currently Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University , where he directs the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He has served as a Cabinet minister in the Chilean government, and as Chile’s Ambassador to China, to India and to South Africa. A past Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), he was previously the CIGI Professor of Global Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University (2007-2017), and has held visiting appointments at the universities of Konstanz, Oxford, Paris and Tsinghua. A co-founder and board member of Diplomats Without Borders, he has published 17 books. In 2023 he received the Pardee School’s Adil Najam Prize for Advancing the Public Understanding of Global Affairs.
