Authors

Ricardo Cotta Ferreira is a business professor specializing in agribusiness strategic management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil.

Kathryn Wade is program officer for the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the American Red Cross.

Darío Hidalgo, PhD, is director of research and practice at EMBARQ, the World Resources Institute’s Center for Sustainable Transport.

Marcelo Furtado is the executive director of Greenpeace Brazil.

Nils Diaz is the previous chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and is currently the managing director of ND2 Group.

Anthony DePalma, a former New York Times correspondent, is writer in residence at Setn Hall Univeristy and author of several books, including The Man Who Invented Fidel. His most recent book is City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11.

Arturo Valenzuela served as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs until July 2011. He is returning to his academic position at Georgetown University.

Juan C. Cappello is chairman and managing partner of Contemporanea LLC and serves on the board of directors of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum.

Rob Ruck is senior lecturer and historian at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game (March 2011).

Fabian Koss currently serves as youth program coordinator in the Office of External Relations at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Simon Wardle is executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Octagon Worldwide and manages Octagon’s Insights & Strategy Unit.

Simon Kuper is a columnist for the Financial Times, author of Soccer Against the Enemy and co-author of Soccernomics. Both books are published by Nation Books.

Andrew Zimbalist is the Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. He has written extensively about Latin America and the sports industry.