Diego Abente Brun

Diego Abente Brun, a former senator and government official in Paraguay, will spend the fall 2006 semester at Kellogg. Among the posts he has held: senior cabinet advisor to the minister of Finance, 2003-2005; senator, 1993-2003; minister of Justice and Labor, 2002; and ambassador to the Organization of American States, 1999-2002.

Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Politics at Universidad Católica in Paraguay, and senior researcher at the Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguay (CADEP).

While at Kellogg, Abente will research “Democracy in Paraguay and other ‘failed’ systems: Balance and Perspectives.”

He holds a PhD in political science from the University of New Mexico.

Kellogg Lecture: "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Small South American Country"

Newsletter Profile: "When Democracy Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place"