Many people have asked me for my curriculum vitae: here it is

CURRICULUM VITAE
ANA JULIA JATAR

e-mail: anajuliajatar@gmail.com

EDUCATION
1991: Ph. D, in Industrial and Business Studies, Warwick University, Coventry, England.
1980: M.B.A., York University, Toronto, Canada.
1977: B.Sc. in Economics, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2007-June 2008. Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Other professional activities since January 2006, member of the editorial committee at El Nacional, A prestigious Venezuelan newspaper and member of the editorial committee at analiticapremium.com, a well known, internet publication in Venezuela.
January 2005- April 2007. Member of the Executive Committee and Director of the Political Discrimination Project at Súmate (NGO which mission is the defense of political rights in Venezuela).
September 2003- December 2004. Director, Descifrado, Online News, Director, Hispanic News. Other professional activities: Coordinating the advice that Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates were giving to the Venezuelan opposition for the presidential recall referendum against president Hugo Chavez.
August 2001 until July 2003. Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies at Harvard University.
September 1994- July 2001. Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, Washington DC. Other professional activities: Executive Director of the Group of Fifty, a network of Latin American CEO’s who meet in Washington under the organization of The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
World Bank consultant on competition policy and judicial reform. Also anti-trust consultant to The Coca-Cola Company, Gerber, Kimberly Clark and Frito-Lay on multimillion merger transactions in Venezuela. Host of CNN’s “Choque de Opiniones,” a weekly news show which debates issues of importance to the US and Latin America.

April 1992 – January 1994. Head of the anti-trust agency in Venezuela: The Superintendence for the Promotion and Protection of Free Competition. Main responsibility: to set up the newly created agency.

1986-1992. Full time researcher and assistant professor for graduate level courses in Marketing and Industrial Organization. Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administration (IESA).

1985-1986. Assistant Manager for Economic and Marketing Planning at Cerveceria Polar C.A., designing scenarios for corporate investment decisions in different product and geographic divisions at the most important Venezuelan brewery and second largest in Latin-America.

1984-1985. Director for Medium-Term Planning, and Coordinator of the VII Plan of the Nation at Oficina Central de Control y Planificación de la Presidencia de la República (CORDIPLAN), the Venezuelan planning ministry.

1982-1984. Economic Analyst at the Corporate Planning Division, Cervecería Polar, C.A., responsible for designing corporate strategy.

SELECTED RESEARCH WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS

-Blog: anajuliajatar.com
- June 2003-present: Op-ed column in the Venezuelan newspaper: El Nacional.
- Apartheid in the XXI Century: Information Technology at the Service of Political Discrimination in Venezuela. December 2006.

- “Deciphering Venezuela: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective” in ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America, Fall 2002.

-Passionate Politics: the Nature of Cuban-Venezuelan Relations. Cuba Briefing Paper Series, Georgetown University. February 2002.

-“Competition Policy in Venezuela: The promotion of a Social Change” and “Competition Policy in the European Economic Community: Lessons for Latin America” in Competition Policy, Deregulation and Modernization in Latin America. Edited by Moises Naim and Joseph S. Tulchin. (1999) Lynne Rienner Publisher, Boulder, Colorado.

-The Cuban Way: Capitalism, Communism and Confrontation. (1999) Kumarian Press, Inc. Hartford, CT. USA. Choice Award as Outstanding Academic Book.

-United States: Cuba Policy Shift. Oxford Analytica, August 20, 1999.

-Integrating the Hemisphere: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean. (1997) Inter-American Dialogue Publication, Washington D.C., Eds. with Sidney Weintraub.

-Through the Cracks of Socialism: The Emerging Private Sector in Cuba. Presented at the Annual Conference of the ASCE (Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy) Miami, Florida. Aug. 1996.

-“Competition Policy in the European Economic Community: Lessons for Latin America”. Presented at a OECD/World Bank Conference. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1996.

-Competition Policy in Latin America”: presented at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association, 1995.

-"Implementing Competition Policy in Recently Liberalized Economies: the Case of Venezuela", Annual Fordham Corporate Law Institute, Chapter 5, 1995.

-"Rivalry, Competition and Public Policies", IESA Working Paper Series, 1994.

-“Comment on R. Willig’s Public vs. Regulated Private Enterprise” Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1993, pp.171-174.

-"Discussion of the Venezuelan Anti-Trust Law", Working Paper, 1991.

-"Determinants of Vertical Integration and Control in Distribution Channels". University of Warwick, Ph. D. Dissertation, 1991.

-The Tourism Industry: More than a Charter, with Norelis Betancourt, 1990, Caracas: Ediciones IESA.

-"The State and the New Social Contract: A New Industrial Policy for Venezuela", in La Reforma del Estado, Caracas: Comisión Presidencial para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE), 1986.

-"The Economic Impact of the Restitution of the Constitutional Economic Rights", Working Paper, Comisión Presidencial para la reforma Del Estado (COPRE), 1986.

-"How does Marketing Theory Apply to Venezuela?, IESA Working Paper, 1986.

-"Economic Strategy and Short-Term Policy", IESA Working Paper, with Ricardo Hausmann, 1986.

LANGUAGES : Spanish as a first language. Fluent in English.