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Full Professor at INCAE Business School since 1994. He was a visiting professor at the Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador, and guest lecturer at the Fuqua Executive MBA and other executive programs at Duke University. He was part of the Western Hemisphere Advisory Group to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
His essays on Latin America and U.S. foreign policy have been published in the Journal of Democracy, New Republic, Commentary, Book World of the Washington Post, The Week in Review of the New York Times, The SAIS Review, Foro Internacional of the Colegio de México, IMF publications, FUNIDES publications, the Revista de INCAE, Confidencial, Razón Pública, and Estrategia y Negocios, among other publications.
He has also been interviewed by PBS, CNN, Al Jazeera, among other international television networks, and has served as Nicaragua's Ambassador to the United States and Canada.
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Between February 2007 and February 2009, Arturo J. Cruz-Sequeira served as Nicaragua's Ambassador to the United States and Canada.
In June 2009 he returned to INCAE, his academic home since 1994, where he holds the position of Full Professor. Prior to his career with INCAE, Professor Cruz-Sequeira was a Bradley Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC.
He has been Guest Lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute (Washington DC), in the executive education programs at Fuqua, Duke University's business school, as well as visiting professor at ESEN in El Salvador.
Among other activities, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the weekly Confidencial (Managua, Nicaragua), Vice President of Glasnost, the company that owns the English-language digital publication Nicaragua Dispatch, and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Colección Cultural de Centro América.
He was also a member of the Working Group on Central America of the Inter-American Dialogue, as well as the Western Hemisphere Regional Advisors Group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Council of the Americas Ambassadors, associated with CSIS in Washington DC, and the Strategic Reflection Group of the UNDP in Nicaragua.
He is currently an active member of Alternativa Latinoamericana. He has participated as a member and consultant to boards of directors of Central American banks and companies. Some companies are: Grupo Monge (Costa Rica), Ingenio Pantaleón (Guatemala), Banco del Istmo (Panama), BAC (Costa Rica), Banco Agrícola (El Salvador), Banco Cuscatlán (El Salvador), Grupo Corporativo Pérez (Panama), and AEI (Houston, Texas).
Other consultancies include Platts (Miami and Guatemala City), FUSADES and ANEP (El Salvador), FUNIDES (Nicaragua), the Nicaraguan Army High Command, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, Pro Nicaragua, Unión Fenosa, UNILEVER Central America, CEAL Central America, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).
He has lectured at Americas Society (New York), SAIS (Washington DC), Wilson Center (Washington DC), Inter American Dialogue (Washington DC), The Heritage Foundation (Washington DC), Organization of American States (Washington DC), State Department Ambassadorial Seminars (Washington DC), Center for Hemispheric Policy University of Miami, Princeton University, Latin American Centre at Saint Antony's College (University of Oxford), CEAL Latin America (Mexico City, Mexico), Institute of Latin American Studies (Kyoto, Japan), Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Bonn, Germany), and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Lake Como, Italy).
His essays on Latin America and U.S. foreign policy have been published in the Journal of Democracy, New Republic, Commentary, Book World Washington Post, Week in Review New York Times, SAIS Review, Confidencial, Estrategia y Negocios, INCAE Business Review, Razón Pública.
Other publications include working papers with UNDP, IMF (Washington DC), Wilson Center (Washington DC), Inter American Dialogue (Washington DC), FUSADES (San Salvador, El Salvador), FUNIDES (Managua, Nicaragua).
His work, La Republica Conservadora was published in English by Palgrave Press and Saint Antony's Oxford in 2002 and in Spanish by Colección Cultural in 2003. His book with Forrest Colburn, Varieties of Liberalism, was published in English by Texas University Press in 2007.
Professor Cruz-Sequeira has been interviewed by BBC Radio, PBS's The News Hour, CNN and Al Jazeera, among other international media outlets. His university education began with a B.A. from SIS at American University, followed by an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins (SAIS), and a Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in England.
