Who Controls Science?
Competing narratives emerge not because evidence is inherently ambiguous, but because power determines which knowledge is visible, legitimate, or silenced.
Jorge A. Huete-Pérez
Jorge A. Huete-Pérez is one of Central America’s top scholars in biotechnology and a highly regarded member of the scientific community internationally. He is a teaching professor at the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He has more than two decades of experience working on science and technology policy with a focus on Latin America. In 2009 Dr. Huete, along with a select group of scientists, organized the Academy of Sciences of Nicaragua, becoming its founding president. In 2014, Dr. Huete was named senior vice president of research and social outreach at the University of Central America, a position he held until the university’s closure.