Jorge Heine

Jorge Heine is the Ambassador of Chile to India and Sri Lanka.

He was previously Professor of Political Science at Diego Portales University(2000-2003), Director of the International Affairs Program at the Chile 21 Foundation(2001-2003), a Consulting Professor at Stanford University(1999-2003) and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Heidelberg(2002-2003).

He also served as the Minister of National Assets of Chile (1999). Prior to that he served as Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), as well as non-resident Ambassador to Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. He was previously Deputy Minister of Defense, Chilean Air Force (1993-1994), as well as Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute of International Studies, University of Chile (1990-1994). He has taught at the War Academy of the Chilean Army as well as at Chile’s Diplomatic Academy. His previous positions include that of Associate Director of the EC-funded Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA) in Madrid (1989), Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (1986-1991), Director of the Caribbean Institute and Study Centre for Latin America (CISCLA) at Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San Germán (1982-1986) and Deputy Director, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC (1980-1982).

Dr.Heine has given lectures at universities throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australasia, has been a Visiting Fellow at St.Antony’s College, Oxford (1984) and has held post-doctoral fellow
ships from the Social Science Research Council (1990) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1991-1992). A consultant to Oxford Analytica since 1984, he has also been a consultant for the Ford Foundation and the United Nations as well as an election observer for the Organization of American States in Haiti and the Chair of the International Jury for the Gordon K.Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship (1992). An Associate Member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, an Honorary Research Fellow of the South African