PRESIDENTS OF CELAO
President of CELAO (2005-2007)
Professor Dr. Barry Carr (Australia)
Emeritus Professor, History and
Archaeology Department, La Trobe University
Senior Fellow, Institute of Latin
American Studies, La Trobe University (2008 - Present), Australia
President of CELAO (2007-2008)
Professor Dr. Won-Ho Kim, Ph.D.
(South Korea)
Director, Center for International
Cooperation & Strategy (Since Aug 2016)
Director of Latin American Studies
Department (Since Sept 2007)
Graduate School of International and
Area Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
(HUFS), South Korea
President of CELAO (2008-2010)
Professor Dr. Abdul Nafey (India)
Professor (retd.) of Latin American
Studies, Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies (CCUS&LAS),
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
President of CELAO (2010-2012)
Professor Dr. Enrique Valencia Lomelí (Mexico)
Profesor-Investigador del Centro
Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CUCSH) de la Universidad de
Guadalajara, México.
President of CELAO (2012-2014)
Professor Dr. Fernando Zialcita (Philippines)
Professor Emeritus, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
President of CELAO (2014-2016)
Professor Dr. Yusuke Murakami (Japan)
Professor, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
President of CELAO (2016-2018)
Professor Warwick Murray, PhD, FNZGS, DNZG (New Zealand)
President, New Zealand Geographical Society
Past-President, Council for Latin American Studies of Asia and
Oceania (CELAO)
National Award-Winning Fellow, Ako Aotearoa New Zealand Academy of
Tertiary Teaching Excellence
Editor-in-Chief, Asia Pacific Viewpoint (#9 in Area Studies ISI
rankings 2018)
Professor of Human Geography and Development Studies, School of
Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington,
Aotearoa / New Zealand
President of CELAO (2018-Present)
Sonia Chan Prado, LLB, MBA (Macao S. A. R. China)
President of the Executive Board of Macao
Association for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-Pacific and Latin
America (MAPEAL)
President of the Executive Board of
the Macau International Healthcare Think Tank (MIHTT)
Vice President of the Macau
Association of the Belt and Road E-commerce (MABRE)
Vice President of the Global Village
Association, Macao