Patricio Navia is a master teacher in liberal studies and assistant professor at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He is also a professor of political science at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, director of the Magíster en Opinión Pública, and founding director of the Observatorio Electoral, where he has been the head researcher in two Fondecyt projects at Universidad Diego Portales. He is a member of Editorial Board for the Americas Quarterly magazine and a regular columnist at La Tercera newspaper and Capital magazine in Chile.