Authors

Lourdes Melgar is director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Melanne Verveer is ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues at the U.S. State Department.

Magda Hinojosa is assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University. Her book Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America will be published by Temple University Press this summer.

Michelle Bachelet is the first under-secretary general and executive director of UN Women. She served as president of Chile from 2006 to 2010.

Javier El-Hage is the international legal director at the Human Rights Foundation and author of HRF’s report, The Facts and the Law Behind the Democratic Crisis of Honduras, 2009-2010. Follow him on Twitter: @javierelhage.

William McIlhenny is senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a former official at the State Department and the National Security Council.

Hunter T. Carter is a partner at Arent Fox LLP.  

Edgar Moreno is a graduate student of public administration at Columbia University. He has served as chief speechwriter in Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy and speechwriter to the President of Mexico.

Flavio Darío Espinal is a former Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States and to the United States of America.

Robert Fatton Jr. is the Julia Cooper Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia’s Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics.

Ioulia Fenton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University in the United States and is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD) in Bolivia.