Authors

Kuterdem is the president of the Latin America & Canada Region for Philip Morris International (PMI)

González is a Colombian-American researcher trained at Georgetown and Stanford who works with internal guerrilla archives, interviews and other primary sources

Bishop is a research analyst at the FIU Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy.

Oppenheimer is an author, international columnist and anchor of “Oppenheimer Presenta” on CNN en Español. His forthcoming book on Latin America’s future in the age of AI is to be published by Penguin Random House in early 2027.

Degli Innocenti has been a London-based correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore since 2004, covering politics, economics, arts and culture. Before that she worked for The Financial Times in Johannesburg and London. She has a Ph.D from the London School of Economics.

Maloney is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and the former chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank.

Legler is a professor of International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México.

Lupu is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for Global Democracy and LAPOP Lab.

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.