Authors

*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.

Felix Stein is a graduate student in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. His thesis research concerns property justifications and conflict among Bolivian miners.

Paul Manna is an associate professor in the Department of Government and the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. This article is adapted from a longer working paper completed for the American Enterprise Institute’s Future of American Education Project.

Edward J. Remache is currently a Master’s degree student in New York University’s Global Affairs program and is conducting research on a Ford Foundation-funded project on the private sector and social inclusion with the Americas Society. Sandra Regina Ribeiro and Bridgett Davey Talledo collaborated in the research for this article.

Gino Costa is president of Ciudad Nuestra and a former Minister of Interior of Peru.

Mark P. Jones is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and chair of the Department of Political Science at Rice University.