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