Current Events Flash Panel: Venezuela in Crisis
This panel will look at the political and economic situation in Venezuela, including events that led to the current state of affairs and thoughts about the future of the country.
Featuring:
Faculty Fellow Michael Coppedge, Professor of Political Science
Faculty Fellow Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Visiting Fellow Verónica Zubillaga, Associate Professor, Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas)
PhD Fellow Bernardo Pulido Marquez, Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate
Moderated by:
Visiting Fellow Claudio Orrego, International Urban Consultant and Former Governor of Santiago

Michael Coppedge
Michael Coppedge is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research interests include democratization and the quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; and comparative politics methodology. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 1995...
Verónica Zubillaga
Veronica Zubillaga (PhD, Catholic University of Louvain), a former Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, is a Venezuelan Sociologist. She holds a Doctorate in Sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2003). Since 2007 she has been Professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas...
Bernardo Pulido Márquez
Bernardo Pulido Márquez is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at the Law School. He obtained his law degree (LLB equivalent) from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) at Caracas, Venezuela, where he also did studies on Venezuelan Constitutional Law...





