Fernando Lopez-Alves is Full Professor of Sociology, Global and International Studies at the University of California. He holds a PhD and a Masters in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as a Masters in Philosophy. For five years he directed the University of California Washington Center in Washington D.C. and over the last fifteen he has founded and directed Research Centers and Think Tanks in different countries. He has been a researcher and a visiting faculty in several universities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America (Princeton University, UCLA, University of London, University of Salamanca, George Washington University, Oxford University, University of CEMA Argentina, University de los Andes Colombia, Universidad de La Republica Uruguay, and the Institute of Latin American Studies, London).
