Authors

Moisés Naím is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and chief international columnist for the Spanish daily El País.

Dan Restrepo was Special Assistant to the President for Western Hemisphere Affairs 2009 to 2012.

Eva Paus is professor of economics and the Carol Hoffmann Collins Director of the McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke College.

Steven Samford is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of New Mexico. His research is supported by the Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Program.

This article is based on Ford Foundation-funded research on the private sector and social inclusion. Matthew Aho is manager of policy at Americas Society and Council of the Americas. Richard André is a policy associate at Americas Society and Council of the Americas.

*Nicole Etchart is NESsT’s CEO and co-founder based in Santiago, Chile. *Loϊc Comolli is NESsT’s Director of Client & Investor Relations based in San Francisco, California.

Albert Fishlow is professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University. Recent books include O Novo Brasil (Editora SaintPaul, 2011) and Starting Over: Brazil Since 1985 (Brookings, 2011). He is co-author of Agricultura e Industria no Brasil (IPEA, 2017) and a forthcoming revision in English, Agriculture and Industry in Brazil (Columbia, 2020).  

Mark Osmond, who holds a master’s degree in economics and public policy from Columbia University, is currently a law student at the University of Michigan.

Oscar Morales Guevara is a fellow in the Human Freedom Program at the George W. Bush Institute and founder of One Million Voices against FARC.

Amy Erica Smith is associate professor of political science at Iowa State University, and author of Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God (2019, Cambridge University Press). Her research focuses on public opinion and political culture in Latin America, and particularly Brazil.

David Mineta is Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Ethan Nadelmann is founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

Nadine Gasman is the senior manager of the UN Secretary General’s UNiTE Campaign to End Violence against Women for Latin America and the Caribbean. Gabriela Alvarez is a programme specialist at the Americas and the Caribbean section at UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

César Arias holds a master of public administration degree from Columbia University.

Jeb Blount is a journalist in Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil since 1991, he has covered Latin American oil and gas for agencies such as Platts and Bloomberg News.