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Luis Raul Matos
Director of the Governance Program for Latin America Chief Council
Luis Raúl Matos is currently the Director of the Governance Program for
Latin America in the Graduate School of Political Management at the George
Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. He was a Senior Advisor of
the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD) -
Organization of American States (OAS). Prof. Matos provides guidance and
support to several IACD's initiatives, including the Municipal Development
Program.
Prof. Matos has worked for the Venezuelan Government in positions of high
responsibility, including: Minister of Finance; Director of the Central Bank
of Venezuela; Director of the Venezuelan Investment Fund; Minister Adviser
to the President; elected senator; elected member of the House of
Representative of the Venezuelan Congress; Minister of Planning; Director of
Planning; and Director of The Council of Science and Technology. He has also
been a lecturer of Strategic Planning at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in
Venezuela and President of the Foundation "Center for the Study of Latin
America - CEREL." Before becoming Director of the Governance Program at GWU he was the Executive Director for Venezuela and Panama at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington D.C.
Prof. Matos holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of
Miami and a Masters degree in Political Science from Universidad Simón
Bolivar in Venezuela. He has also done postgraduate studies in Operational
Research at Universidad Central de Venezuela and management courses at the University of Georgia and University of Indiana (IESA). Prof. Matos has
authored several publications, particularly in issues related to governance
and public affairs. He has developed a methodology (Viaprocess) for the
political management of any process of innovation and transformation, and he has the copyright for a strategic game called Powerchess.
Prof. Matos has presented his analytical framework in the area of political
management and governance in different countries and universities.
Madrid (Universidad de Navarra and Grupo Monforte, Lisboa (ISTEG, Instituto
Superior de Gerencia), México (Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey), Ecuador
(Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil y Universidad Católica de
Quito), Bolivia (Universidad Privada del Valle), Perú (Universidad Católica
de Perú), Guatemala (Universidad Rafael Landivar) and Republica Dominicana (CITEG).
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