Gonzalo Paz

Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Dr. Gonzalo S. Paz is an Argentine citizen. He holds a J.D., and MPhil in International Relations (both from National University of Córdoba), and M.A. in Political Science and Ph.D. in Political Science (George Washington University).

He is a pioneer in the studies of extra-regional powers in Latin America, particularly China, Russia and India. He is currently a researcher at Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service). He also is a former lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs (George Washington University), American University, and University of Maryland (BC). He has been Visiting Professor at the Stockholm University (Sweden), Università Roma Tre (Italy), Tel Aviv University (Israel) and University of Guadalajara (Mexico). He has also been a professor of the School of Oriental Studies of the University of Salvador and at the Master in International Relations of La Plata National University, both in Argentina.

Dr. Paz has been invited to lecture in different universities around the world, such as Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Tsinghua, UNAM, UBA, Complutense, Tel Aviv, Saint Petersburg State University, and MGIMO, and at research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences
(Moscow) and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars (Washington, DC). He has received several fellowships and awards, from Fulbright, Andrew W. Mellon, Smith Richardson Foundation, Korea Foundation Fellowship (at SNU) among others. He was a 2020 George Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute Russia & Institute China, Woodrow Wilson International Center.

He has been Chair, LASA 2020, Track “Rivalry Among Great Powers.” He has been Chair of the permanent section “Latin America and the Pacific Rim”, currently “Asia and the Americas” (2006-2007 and 2007-2009) of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Dr. Paz has also been a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and the Organization of
American States (OAS). He has been interviewed or quoted by international media, among them CNN, BBC, AFP-Agence France Press, France 24, CCTV (“Dialogue”, with Yang Rui), Voice of Americas, US-China Today, LE FIGARO, TELESUR, CLARIN, La Voz del Interior, La Nación, Ambito Financiero, and Sputnik (Russia).