Monica Hirst

is a Brazilian-American professor of International Affairs at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. She has taught at the Argentine Foreign Service Institute and the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Argentina) and served as a visiting professor at Stanford, the University of São Paulo and Harvard. She has worked as a consultant for the UN Development Program, Ford Foundation, Andean Development Corporation and the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and Colombia.

Hirst co-coordinates the project “Reconstruction of Haiti: Strengthening Argentina’s Capacity for Effective Cooperation”, run by FLACSO and supported by the International Development Research Centre. She has published extensively on Brazilian foreign policy, Latin America–US relations, regional security and integration.