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Jorge Nef (PhD) is Professor of Political Science and International Development at the Department of Rural Extension Studies at the University of Guelph. He was the 1997–98 recipient of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations and the University of Guelph Faculty Association awards for outstanding contribution to teaching and has been a visiting professor in both Canadian and foreign universities and institutes. He has been President of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and editor of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Centre for Refugee Studies, both at York University.

His numerous books and articles in refereed journals and in edited collections deal with development issues, food security, terrorism, ethics and technology, comparative public administration, authoritarian regimes, social theory, international relations, and Latin American politics. Professor Nef has worked as a consultant and cooperant with various national and international agencies in the field of international development (Pan American Health Organization, Canadian International Development Agency, and International Development Research Centre [IDRC]). He also represented IDRC as a delegate to the Expert Groups of the South Commission in Geneva in 1989 and was a member of Team Canada during the Prime Minister’s visit to Chile in 1995. His most recent research has focused on issues of governability, social policy, conflict resolution, and human security in the context of global relations.

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