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Benjamin Gedan
CPD Blog Contributor, Senior Adviser, Latin American Program, and Director, Argentina Project; Wilson Center
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Benjamin N. Gedan is a senior adviser to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s Latin American Program, and the director of its Argentina Project. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins. He is a former South America director on the National Security Council at the White House. Previously, Benjamin was responsible for Honduras and Argentina at the U.S. Department of State, and covered Central America and the Caribbean as an international economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

As a journalist, he reported for The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald and other publications. He is a former Fulbright scholar in Uruguay, and earned a Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor’s in international relations, and received a Master’s in international economics and Latin American studies from SAIS. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

As a Latin America scholar, he has published opinion pieces in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Hill and Foreign Policy, and his analysis has been quoted by The New York Times, The Financial Times, Bloomberg and NPR. He has appeared on PBS NewsHour, CNN and BBC World News.

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