Kevin Funk is a Fellow in Global Thought at Columbia. He possess expertise in research, higher education, university teaching, qualitative research, public speaking and 11 more skills. He is proficient in Portuguese. Colleagues describe him as "Kevin has struck me as an outstanding and versatile academic. He is thoroughly proficient in Spanish and is knowledgeable through reading and travel about the Latin American problematique like few of his contemporaries today. His students and readers of his research will profit greatly from the insight and depth he possesses about the region, a much misunderstood and often maligned region. He’s an effective and interesting speaker. Any University should be happy to have him in its faculty. Alejandro Velez, Professor Emeritus of Economics (LinkedIn)"