Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"There is a tendency to take what one has learned for granted. I came to really appreciate the skills I picked up at Yale SOM as I took on more administrative responsibilities and found that what I assumed was obvious had posed challenges for my more academically minded colleagues. From preparing a budget to learning how to listen to staff, Yale SOM certainly has made a big difference in my career."

Miguel Angel Centeno is professor of sociology at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs. From 1997-2004, he also served as master of Wilson College at Princeton.

Miguel is the author of Mexico in the 1990s (1991), Democracy within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (2nd ed., 1997), Blood and Debt: War and Statemaking in Latin America (2002), and the editor of Toward a New Cuba (1997), The Politics of Expertise in Latin America (1997), The Other Mirror: Grand Theory and Latin America (2000), and Mapping the Global Web (2001). He is currently working on two book projects: The Historical Atlas of Globalization and The Triumph and Dilemmas of Liberalism. Through the International Networks Archive, Miguel is working on improving the quantitative scholarship available on globalization.

He has also written and produced a six-hour CD-ROM version of his course on"The Western Way of War." He serves as an editor for several journals including World Politics.

Miguel received his BA in history in 1980, his MBA in 1987, and his PhD in sociology in 1990, all from Yale University. He has received grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and has been a fulbright scholar in Russia and Mexico.

In 1997, Miguel was awarded the Presidential Teaching Prize at Princeton University. In 2000, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program which provides intensive supplemental training for lower income students in three local high schools. For this work, he was recently awarded the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the Bonner Foundation Award.

He is married and has two children.