Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies
# Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies

The Simón Bolívar Chair in Latin American Studies is a visiting professorship at Cambridge University, funded by the Venezuelan government. It is awarded to a distinguished Latin American scholar or other intellectual. The position is associated with Cambridge's Centre for Latin American Studies.

## Former Simón Bolívar Professors

* 1968/1969 Arnoldo Gabaldón
* 1969/1970 Octavio Paz (Nobel Prize in Literature 1990)
* 1970/1971 Marcel Roche
* 1971/1972 Sergio Villalobos
* 1972/1973 Alvaro Jara
* 1973/1974 Celso Furtado
* 1974/1975 Pedro Grases
* 1975/1976 Ignacio Bernal
* 1976/1977 Fernando Henrique Cardoso
* 1977/1978 Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize in Literature 2010)
* 1979/1980 Tulio Arends
* 1981/1982 Pablo González Casanova
* 1982/1983 Ramón Escovar Salom
* 1985/1986 Allan Brewer Carias
* 1986/1987 Carlos Fuentes
* 1988/1989 Blas Bruni-Celli
* 1989/1990 Gustavo Gutiérrez
* 1991/1992 Beatriz Sarlo
* 1992/1993 Luis Castro Leiva
* 1993/1994 José de Souza Martins
* 1994/1995 Jaime Requena
* 1995/1996 Julio Ortega
* 1996/1997 Enrique Florescano
* 1997/1998 Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
* 1998/1999 Rodolfo Cerdas-Cruz
* 1999/2000 Enrique Tandeter
* 2000/2001 Fernando Pérez Oyarzún
* 2001/2002 Asdrúbal Baptista
* 2002/2003 Guillermo O'Donnell
* 2003/2004 Guillermo de la Peña
* 2004/2005 Mercedes González de la Rocha
* 2007/2008 José Luis Lanata
* 2008/2009 Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy
* 2009/2010 Carlos Iván Degregori
* 2010/2011 Fabián Michelangeli
* 2011/2012 Adrián Gorelik
* 2012/2013 Manuel Antonio Garretón
* 2013/2014 Rosalva Aida Hernández
* 2014/2015 Diamela Eltit
* 2015/2016 Leonardo Waisman
* 2016/2017 Antônio Sérgio Guimarães
* 2017/2018 Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez
* 2018/2019 Natalia Majluf
* 2019/2020 Ángel Luis Viloria Petit
* 2022 Maristella Svampa
