Director
Name: Adalberto Augusto Ronda Varona
Date of birth: 14 February 1945
He graduated as Bachelor of Social Science from the Ñico López National School of the Party in 1972. He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Havana in 1973.
Further education: Doctorate in Philosophical Science, Moscow, 1980.
Career:
1966-1991: Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department and the School of Social Science of the General Máximo Gómez Academy of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR, by its Spanish initials), Antonio Maceo Order.
1991-1999: Deputy Director of the José Martí Studies Center.
1999-2001: Deputy Director of the America Studies Center.
2001-2010: Director of the America Studies Center.
2003-2006: Member of the Executive Committee of the Regional Coordination for Economic and Social Research (CRIES, by its Spanish initials).
2004-2010: Executive Committee Representative of the Caribbean and Central American centers that are part of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO, by its Spanish initials).
2010-present: Director of the International Policy Research Center (CIPI, by its Spanish initials).
Member of the editorial boards of magazines “Honda” of the José Martí Cultural Society and “Ciencias Sociales” of the Philosophy Institute of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA, by its Spanish initials). Director of the magazine “Cuadernos de Nuestra América” since 2001 and the journal “Revista de Estudios Estratégicos” since 2014, both published by the International Policy Research Center.
He has played an important role as a member of Cuban delegations participating in international events. He has given lectures and participated in scientific conferences in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Honduras, Nicaragua, Margarita Island, Spain, Iran, Italy, Bulgaria, China, Chili, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.
He has received distinctions for his teaching and research work, including the National Culture Distinction, awarded by the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
He is specialized in the study of the philosophical thinking and ethics behind José Martí’s cosmovision, as well as in Latin American and Caribbean politics and international relations.
He is married and has two children.
Phone Number: 7 2063098 Ext 103
Email: ronda@cipi.cu
Deputy Director
Name: Santiago Pérez Benítez
Date of birth: 20 January 1962
He graduated as Bachelor of International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia, in 1980.
Further education: Master’s Degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, by its Spanish initials), Mexico, 1995-1998. Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI, by its Spanish initials), Havana, 2000.
Languages: English and Russian
Career:
1986-1995: Researcher of the America Studies Center. Member of the Research Project on the US.
1995-1998: Master’s Degree Studies. UNAM-Mexico. Latin American Studies.
1999-2002: Professor. Higher Institute of International Relations, ISRI. Subjects: US Foreign Policy, Cuban Foreign Policy, Inter-American Relations.
2002-2004: First Secretary in charge of the Politics Office, Embassy of Cuba in the Russian Federation.
2004-2005: Professor. Higher Institute of International Relations, ISRI. Coordinator of Strategic Studies. Subjects: US Foreign Policy, Cuban Foreign Policy, Theory of International Relations.
2005-2013: Deputy Director of the Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2013-2015: Researcher at the International Policy Research Center. Research Project on Europe. Coordinator of the Research Scenario of World Trends and Global Problems. Coordinator of the Research Scenario of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
2015-present: Deputy Director of the International Policy Research Center. Director of the National International Relations Research Program. Researcher of the Project on Europe. Coordinator of the Research Scenario of World Trends and Global Problems. Coordinator of the Research Scenario of Russia and the CIS countries.
He has been a visiting professor in several US, Russian, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan and Mexican universities. He has a great number of publications on the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia, and the US and Cuba. He is a member of the working group on US foreign policy of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences. He has appeared as a guest commentator in talk shows that analyze international affairs, such as the Mesa Redonda, and on channels Telesur, Canal Caribe, and Cubavisión Internacional, and radio stations Habana Radio, Radio Habana Cuba, and Radio Rebelde.
He is married and has two children.
Phone Number: 7 2062759 Ext 106
Email: stgo1@cipi.cu