Fredo Arias-King is president of the Prague-based Casla Institute, a think tank focused on cross-pollinating reforms in Latin America and post-communist Europe, whose petition initiated the International Criminal Court’s case against the Venezuelan regime. He has advised democratic forces in both areas, has published on this topic (including the 2005 book Transiciones), and is the founder of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, published in Washington since 1992. Fredo was a direct participant in the Mexican breakthrough to democracy in 2000 as senior advisor to the historic campaign that ended seven decades of one-party rule. He is also an “intrapreneur,” starting various projects around his family’s nearly century-old chemicals business. In 2016 he became publisher of the 130-plus-year-old Pine Chemicals Review and he is involved in a movie project about Mikhail Gorbachev. Fredo earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1997 and his master's from the REECA Program in 1998.
Last updated May 2024.