Education
Hakim earned a Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University (1964), an Master of Surgery in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
Hakim earned a Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University (1964), an Master of Surgery in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
He served as president of the Dialogue from 1993 to 2010. Hakim writes and speaks widely on hemispheric issues, and has testified more than a dozen times before Congress. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, and Financial Times, and in newspapers and journals in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and other Latin American nations.
He is a regular guest on Cable News Network, British Broadcasting Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System, Cable News Network en Español and other prominent news stations around the world.
Hakim was a vice president of the Inter-American Foundation and worked for the Ford Foundation in New York and Latin America (in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru). He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University.
He wrote a monthly column for the Christian Science Monitor for nearly ten years, and now serves as a board member of Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica and editorial advisor to Americaeconomia, where he also publishes a regular column. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
