Authors

Ellis is the Latin America practice lead at Miller & Chevalier

Guilera is the AI & Public Policy Program Director at the School of Government of Torcuato Di Tella University (Argentina).

 Monte is a Dr. phil. in History by the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and a Visiting Professor of History at Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. His latest publication, Atractivismo: Historia de la institucionalización y naturalización del turismo en Nicaragua (1936-1979), Herder, 2024.

Cifuentes is the Director of the Center of Financial Studies at ESE Business School and a professor of economics in Santiago, Chile.  

Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. His latest book is Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introduction.

Rodríguez Pueblita is Professor of Business Economics at IPADE Business School in Mexico City and Co-Founder of Quantor Advisors, a financial advisory firm. He holds a PhD in Economics for the University of Pennsylvania.

Ortiz-Mena is the Founder and CEO of AOM Advisors, where he provides strategic advisory services to private and public multinational corporations on trade dynamics, foreign investment strategies, and geopolitics. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at the Center for Latin American Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Marroquín Bitar is the Inaugural Bersin-Foster North America Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He co-founded the North America Project at the US-Mexico Foundation and the non-profit North America 3.0.

Larratt-Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP).

Polga-Hecimovich is an associate professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he also co-directs the Forum for Latin American Studies.

Martínez is an associate professor of political science at the University of Concepción (Chile) and serves as the alternate director of the Millennium Nucleus on Political Crises in Latin America – CRISPOL

Smith is a research professor of economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and has been a consultant with the World Bank, IDB, OAS, OECD, the Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. Department of State.