Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies

The Simón Bolívar Chair in Latin American Studies is a visiting professorship at Cambridge University, funded by the Venezuelan government. It is awarded to a distinguished Latin American scholar or other intellectual. The position is associated with Cambridge's Centre for Latin American Studies.

Former Simón Bolívar Professors
• 1968/1969   Arnoldo Gabaldón

• 1969/1970    Octavio Paz (Nobel Prize in Literature 1990)

• 1970/1971    Marcel Roche

• 1971/1972    Sergio Villalobos

• 1972/1973    Alvaro Jara

• 1973/1974    Celso Furtado

• 1974/1975    Pedro Grases

• 1975/1976    Ignacio Bernal

• 1976/1977    Fernando Henrique Cardoso

• 1977/1978    Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize in Literature 2010)

• 1979/1980    Tulio Arends

• 1981/1982    Pablo González Casanova

• 1982/1983    Ramón Escovar Salom

• 1985/1986    Allan Brewer Carias

• 1986/1987    Carlos Fuentes

• 1988/1989    Blas Bruni-Celli

• 1989/1990    Gustavo Gutiérrez

• 1991/1992    Beatriz Sarlo

• 1992/1993    Luis Castro Leiva

• 1993/1994    José de Souza Martins

• 1994/1995    Jaime Requena

• 1995/1996    Julio Ortega

• 1996/1997    Enrique Florescano

• 1997/1998    Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

• 1998/1999    Rodolfo Cerdas-Cruz

• 1999/2000    Enrique Tandeter

• 2000/2001    Fernando Pérez Oyarzún

• 2001/2002    Asdrúbal Baptista

• 2002/2003    Guillermo O'Donnell

• 2003/2004    Guillermo de la Peña

• 2004/2005    Mercedes González de la Rocha

• 2007/2008    José Luis Lanata

• 2008/2009    Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy

• 2009/2010    Carlos Iván Degregori

• 2010/2011    Fabián Michelangeli

• 2011/2012    Adrián Gorelik

• 2012/2013    Manuel Antonio Garretón

• 2013/2014    Rosalva Aida Hernández

• 2014/2015    Diamela Eltit

• 2015/2016    Leonardo Waisman

• 2016/2017    Antônio Sérgio Guimarães

• 2017/2018    Juan Fernando Calderón Gutiérrez

• 2018/2019    Natalia Majluf

• 2019/2020    Ángel Luis Viloria Petit

• 2022         Maristella Svampa