profile: Jorge Nef

Jorge Nef, Professor Emeritus
Associated Graduate Faculty
Capacity Development and Extension

BA in Public Administration, University of Chile
PhD University of California at Santa Barbara

Telephone: (416) 259-5283
Email:  nef.jorge@gmail.com

Jorge Nef was a Professor at the University of Guelph for 32 years, spending the last 8 years of his career at the SEDRD.  Between 1975 and 1998 he taught Political Science at Guelph.  He was Director of the School of Government of the University of Chile and Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida.  The recipient of five awards for teaching excellence and a prolific writer, he was made University Professor Emeritus in 2008.  His major interests have included International Development, human security, Comparative Public Administration, International Relations, Latin American Studies, democracy, and the internationalization of higher education.  He had taught and done extensive research in these areas and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in these areas.

He has worked as a consultant to CIDA, IDRC, and PAHO.  He has published over a dozen books, some 120 refereed journal articles and book chapters; and a similar number of technical reports, monographs and reviews.  He is also a past President of two Canadian Learning Societies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development.  He has been a visiting professor in the US, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Papua New Guinea.  He has been advisor to dozens of Master and PhD students and has continued serving on graduate committees in CDE, the Rural Studies PhD program and in many universities in Canada and abroad.  In 2002, he was made a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Jorge is available to discuss research and other interests, especially international and global in nature, with grad students and to serve on the occasional Advisory Committee.

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