Dr. Jamil Mahuad
President of Ecuador (1998 - 2000)
Biography
JAMIL MAHUAD | Mahuad served as President of Ecuador from August 1998 to January
2000, capping a career of nearly 20 years in Ecuadorian politics , which
included two terms as Mayor of Quito and member of the National Congress. His
experiences, including the coup that ended his government, have led him to a
second career of scholarship and teaching on the challenges of governing
struggling democracies in the age of globalization. He has served as a Fellow at
three units of Harvard University—the Center for Public Leadership at the
Kennedy School of Government, the Institute of Politics, and the Program on
Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.
Mahuad holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard, as well as a JD
from the Catholic University of Ecuador. He actually serves as a Visiting
Professor in Political Science and a Visiting Fellow at The Kellogg Institute
for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he addressed
faculty and students as a guest lecturer in Spring 2003.
Keynote speaker
Saturday March 6th, 9:20 AM - 9:50 AM
