Authors

Caira Conner is currently a Master’s candidate in New York University’s Global Affairs program. She spent the summer of 2011 in Rio de Janeiro researching Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

Rachel Sieder is a senior research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Anthrolopía Social (CIESAS) in Mexico City and an associate research fellow at the Shr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.

Sergio Aguayo is a professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales at El Colegio de México and a columnist for Reforma newspaper.

Javier Santiso is professor of economics at ESADE Business School in Spain and director of the ESADE Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo).

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.