CAREER

Rolando Arturo Leiva has worked extensively in fields such as Social Anthropology and History; in the investigation of unpublished Archives;  independent Professional Consulting, as a Social Anthropologist; and in perfoming  academic activity, as a university professor. Simultaneously in Journalism, -within correspondent   and editorial articles-, as in the field of Journalistic Edition, together with the Authorship of books and scientific articles, as Historian and Social Anthropologist.  He has participated in the edition of different books as General Editor, and in the literary activity oriented to the novel and poetry.

Graduate and Postgraduate

Dr. Leiva graduated as a Magister of Anthropology at the University of Chile, Santiago, receiving the Maximum Distinction note. He completed the full Cycle of Doctoral Studies in Political Science, as the main discipline, and Ethnology and Sociology, as adjacent disciplines, at the Heidelberg University, Germany. He graduated as Doctor, PhD, in Latin American Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the FU Berlin University, obtaining a Magna Cum Laude mark for his Doctoral Thesis, and Cum Laude as his final PhD grade. His doctoral thesis has been permanently published on the website of the FU Berlin University, scoring until recently more than 500 thousand visits.

Employment

Dr Leiva has been an independent Consultant for Private Sector Companies as a Social Anthropologist. He has also been a Consultant for various United Nations Agencies, such as UNFPA, CEPAL, CIME, FAO. He was Professor at the University of Chile and the University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. Likewise, Correspondent journalist for various media, and Journalistic  Editor. He has also been Editor of various books, as well as Author, Writer,  and translator into Spanish from English and German.