Authors

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.

Jean-François Lisée is the executive director of the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal

Thomas J. Trebat is executive director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.

Tomas Bilbao is executive director of the Cuba Study Group.

 *Elizabeth J. Zechmeister is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) and Daniel Montalvo is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Jennifer L. Merolla is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University. Merolla and Zechmeister … Read more

Orlando J. Pérez is a professor and department chair of political science at Central Michigan University; John A. Booth is Regents Professor in political science at the University of North Texas; and Mitchell A. Seligson is Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Seligson is also director of the Latin … Read more

Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny are professors of political science at Amherst College and the University of Buenos Aires, respectively.   They are co-editors of The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America:  A Reader in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).

Donna Hrinak heads the Latin America/Caribbean Public Policy shop at PepsiCo and represents the company at the Partners Forum. She is a former U.S. Ambassador in the region.

Janice K. Brewer is the governor of Arizona.