Benjamin Gedan

Dr. Benjamin N. Gedan is an Inaugural Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Latin America Studies Initiative and the former Director of the Wilson Center’s Latin America Program. He is a former South America Director on the National Security Council staff at the White House. Previously, he was responsible for Honduras and Argentina at the US Department of State and covered Central America and the Caribbean as an international economist at the US Department of the Treasury.

As a journalist, Gedan reported for The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and other publications. He is a former Fulbright scholar in Uruguay, and earned a PhD 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 former term member and recipient of the International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations.

As a Latin America scholar, Gedan has published opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, and Foreign Policy, and his analysis has been cited by The Economist, the Financial Times, The Guardian, the BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg, as well as leading media outlets in Latin America.