Jan Lust

Jan Lust is Dutch and lives and works in Peru. He has a PhD. in Development Studies Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico) and a master’s degree in Academics (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

He is a researcher and professor at the Postgraduate School of the University Ricardo Palma in Peru and forms part of the Board of Directors of this University’s Research Centre. He is the author of Lucha revolucionaria. Perú, 1958-1967, a book on the history of revolutionary struggle in Peru in the 1960s and of Capitalism, class and revolution in Peru, 1980-2016, a book that analyzes the political, economic and social reasons why the Peruvian socialist left has not been able to carry out its revolutionary project of social transformation.

He is chief editor of the journal Minga, published by academics in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.