Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

João Pedro Azevedo and Louise J. Cord

João Pedro Azevedo is a Senior Economist in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the Latin America and the Caribbean Region at the World Bank. Louise J. Cord is Sector Manager of the Poverty Reduction and Gender Group in the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank.

 

Nicolas Villaume

Nicolas Villaume is a freelance photographer based in Lima, Peru. His website is http://www.nicolasvillaume.com.

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John Otis

Otis is an author and journalist based in Colombia. Previously the South America bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle, Otis’ work has been featured in NPR, Time, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In 2024, he was a gold medal winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from the Journalism School at … Read more

 

Darryl McLeod

Darryl McLeod is an associate professor of economics at Fordham University and consultant to the United Nations Development Programme’s poverty group.

 

Carol Wise

Carol Wise is professor in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC).

 

Felipe Pena

Felipe Pena is a Catholic journalist, psychologist and a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

 

Olivia Ruggles-Brise

Olivia Ruggles-Brise is director of policy and research at the World Travel & Tourism Council.

 

David Tebaldi

David Tebaldi is executive director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. He led four Traveling Humanities Seminars to Cuba from March 2000 through June 2003 and four more from January 2011 through April 2012.

 

Mirte Postema

Mirte Postema is senior program officer of the Judicial Independence Program at the Due Process of Law Foundation.

 

Renata Avelar Giannini

Renata Giannini is a researcher for the Red de Seguridad y Defensa de América Latina (RESDAL), and a PhD candidate at Old Dominion University.

 

Sital Kalantry

Sital Kalantry is clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School and faculty director of Cornell’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice.

 

Cedric Herring

Cedric Herring is professor of sociology and public policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His forthcoming book is Critical Diversity: The New Case for Inclusion and Equal Opportunity.

 

María Gracia Andía

María Gracia Andía is professor of law at Universidad de San Andrés and associate researcher at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) in Buenos Aires.

 

María Gracia Andía

María Gracia Andía is professor of law at Universidad de San Andrés and associate researcher at the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) in Buenos Aires.

 

Michael Shifter

Michael Shifter is president of the Inter-American Dialogue and adjunct professor of Latin American politics at Georgetown University.

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