Michael Rowan was a political consultant for Democrats from 30 states from 1970 to 1990 including Senators Gravel of Alaska, Metzenbaum of Ohio, Riegle of Michigan, Moss of Utah, Cranston of California, Pell of Rhode Island and Moynihan of New York; and Representatives Lantos of California, Swett of New Hampshire, Skelton of Missouri, Carr of Michigan and Manton of New York. Since 1980 he has worked primarily overseas in presidential campaigns and government development programs in Sudan, Mauritius, Israel, Venezuela, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago and Ecuador. He is a former president of the International Association of Political Consultants, the author of Como Salir de Chavez y de la Pobreza, Los Libros de El Nacional, 2006, and with Douglas Schoen Chavez: The Threat Closer to Home, Free Press, January 2009, and a regular columnist for El Universal and Veneconomia of Venezuela, where he lived from 1993 to 2006. He now lives in Bohemia, New York where he consults and writes about Latin America's political economy.

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