Carlos Ominami is president of the Foro Permanente de Política Exterior, a Chilean think tank, a director of the Chile 21 Foundation, and an associate fellow at the Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (IRIS) in Paris. An economist with a doctorate from the University of Paris Nanterre, he served as Chile's Minister of Economic Affairs from 1990-1992 and as a Senator from 1994-2010. He has worked as a researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, and as an advisor to the French Ministry of Industry and to the French Ministry of Cooperation. A columnist for La Tercera, one of Chile's leading dailies, and a member of the Grupo de Puebla, a group of progressive Latin American leaders, he has published a dozen books both in Chile and in France.
