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Alvaro Vargas Llosa<\/b>, a citizen of Peru and Spain and a permanent resident in the United States, is an award-winning writer and author focusing on developing countries and international affairs, as well as a value investor. His most recent book is \u201cGlobal Crossings: Immigration, Civilization, and America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Vargas LLosa received his BSC degree in International History at the London School of Economics and a Master\u00b4s degree in value investing and theory of the economic cycle at Omma in Spain. <\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Vargas LLosa is Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and a former Director of the Center on Global Prosperity at the same public policy institute, a columnist in the United States, Latin America and Spain, and a member of the board and director of the council of business advisors of the Fundaci\u00f3n Internacional para la Libertad (Foundation for International Liberty) based in Spain. He currently writes a weekly column in Spanish for \u201cLa Tercera\u201d in Chile and a monthly column in English that is widely distributed by the Independent Institute in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Vargas LLosa is a former columnist for the <\/span>Washington Post Writers Group<\/span><\/i>, and the author of the book <\/span>Liberty for Latin America<\/span><\/i>, which obtained the Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award for its contribution to the cause of freedom in 2005. In 2008, he presented the four-part series \u201cConsecuencias\u201d on contemporary history for National Geographic, which aired in 100 countries. In 2007 he was nominated as Young Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum in Davos. In 2010, he obtained the Templeton Award for \u201cLessons from the Poor.\u201d Foreign Policy magazine nominated him one of the top 50 public intellectuals in the Spanish-speaking world in 2012. That same year he was a member of the Task Force on Latin America put together by the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, and charged with making recommendations with a view to enhancing relations between the United States, Europe and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n He is the author of the books <\/span>Liberty for Latin America, <\/span><\/i>The Myth of Che Guevara, the Madness of Things Peruvian<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot<\/span><\/a> (which he co-authored with Carlos Alberto Montaner and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza), <\/span>and the editor of \u201cLessons from the Poor.\u201d<\/span><\/i> \u00a0He has also published in Spanish <\/span>El Diablo en campa\u00f1a, La contenta barbarie, El exilio indomable, En el reino del espanto, Tiempos de Resistencia,<\/span><\/i> La mestiza de Pizarro<\/span><\/i>, and, recently, \u201cPr\u00edncipes del valor.\u201d He is also the co-author<\/span> of <\/span>Fabricantes de miseria <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>El regreso del idiota<\/span><\/i>. His most recent book is \u201cGlobal Crossings: Immigration, Civilization and America.\u201d His books have been translated into several languages.<\/span><\/p>\n He has lectured widely on world economic and political issues. Among other venues, he has spoken at The World Economic Forum, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Council on Foreign Affairs (U.S.), The World Affairs Council (U.S.), The Inter-American Dialogue (U.S.), Florida International University (U.S.), University of New York (U.S.), Harvard University, Brown University, The Cato Institute (U.S.), The Atlas Economic Research Foundation (U.S.), The Mount Pelerin Society (Chile), The \u00a0Naumann Foundation (Germany), \u00a0the FAES Foundation (Spain), the Brazilian Institute of Business Studies, the Fundaci\u00f3n Libertad (Argentina), \u00a0the CEDICE Foundation (Venezuela), \u00a0the Ecuatorian Chamber of Commerce (Ecuador), and University of San Marcos (Peru).<\/span><\/p>\n In 2021 he received the Thomas Jefferson Award<\/strong> given by the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=””][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”65″ img_size=”medium” qode_css_animation=””][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text] Alvaro Vargas Llosa, a citizen of Peru and Spain and a permanent resident in the United States, is an award-winning writer and author focusing on developing countries and international affairs, as well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n