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Prof. V. Shivkumar, Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies, had served in many Indian Universities for over two decades. Prof. Kumar earlier had authored books on US Interventionism in Latin America and Latin American perspectives on Kashmir Problem. He also assisted in bringing out a volume on Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean edited by late I.J. Bahadur Singh (I.F.S.) former Indian Ambassador to Egypt. Prof. Kumar had held several academic positions in the Indian universities and had been the recipient of the U.S. sponsored International Visitors Programme (IVP). He served in the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan as a Colombo plan expert and had lectured in various Latin American and the Caribbean Universities, such as the University of West Indies, Trinidad, University of Cardoba, Argentina and University of Mar del Plata, Argentina. He is one of the Assessors for the National Assessment and Accreditation Council of India (NAAC) and he is the Founder Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at Goa University. He also holds an additional position of the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Foreign Students Advisor at Goa University. He is a member of various academic bodies. He had conducted several national and international conferences. He had been a member of UGC expert committee on Area Studies.