ANTONIO HERRERA-VAILLANT

Vice President and General Manager of VenAmCham and Editor in Chief of Business Venezuela since June 1990. A venezuelan citizen born in Havana, he graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington D.C. He has served as AACCLA´s Vice President for Executive Management since January 2002

After graduating, he worked six years with the ABC Television and Radio Network as Associate Producer of "Issues and Answers", a weekly interview program, and Field Producer for News and Special Events. He later moved to Caracas as an independent consultant in public affairs, international trade and real estate. He served as Commissioner in the Government of the Federal District, and Secretary General and Director of International Affairs of the Ministry of Information and Tourism, during which time he was President of the OAS Tourism Commission.

He later joined the Cisneros Group of Companies as Assistant to the President and in 1983, he was named Director for Institutional Relations, a position he held until coming to VenAmCham. He held leadership positions during this period with the Venezuelan Council on Industry (Conindustria); the Venezuelan Federation of Business Chambers (FEDECAMARAS); and the Interamerican Trade and Production Council (CICYP).

A historian, he has published several works on Simón Bolivar, and is President of Venezuela´s Genealogical Institute.

He has received several awards from the government of Venezuela, including the Orden Francisco de Miranda and the Orden al Mérito en el Trabajo, both first class. He is bilingual in Spanish and English and also speaks Portuguese and French. He is married fo the former Carolina Stone Tovar, and has two children Laura Maria and Antonio Jorge, and two grandchildren.