Authors

Rofman is a Principal Researcher at CIPPEC in Buenos Aires, working on demography and social policies. He recently published (with Carola della Paolera) La revolución demográfica, a book about recent trends in population, their consequences and public policy options, in Argentina and the world.

Villar is a senior fellow at the Catholic University of Chile’s Center for International Studies and an international consultant at Andes Risk Group. He is a former director of strategic planning at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Tenaglia is a lawyer and former partner at Linklaters LLP. He was a 2025 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School.

Colby is the U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy. In this role, he is the principal advisor to the Secretary of War on matters of defense and foreign policy.

Morel Salman is executive director and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP).

Palacios Chacín is an economist and consultant. He is an economics professor at UCAB and IESA, and a researcher for the Institute of Economic and Social Sciences at UCAB.

Delgado López is a senior fellow at Florida International University’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. She is an expert in Latin American space ecosystems, and frequently teaches, speaks, and advises on the region’s evolving role in the global space sector.

Keller is an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of the award-winning book The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Nuñez the seventh president of Florida International University and its first alumna president. A former lieutenant governor of Florida and current chair of Space Florida, she is focused on student success, expanding research and innovation, and advancing FIU among the nation’s top public universities.

Ordoñez Delgado is a Colombian writer, literary translator and editorial assistant at Sundial House. Her translation of 69 38 78, by Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, is forthcoming in October.

Aizpeolea is a journalist based in Buenos Aires.

Fasolin is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University

Recco is an associate researcher and project assistant at the FGV School of International Relations in São Paulo

Meneses is a policy and advocacy officer at the Global Cooperation Institute (GCI)

Cristiani is the head of LATAM investment strategy at J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank