Authors

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.

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of the International Education Policy Program at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on leadership, educational innovation and social entrepreneurship.

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.

Bill Richardson is serving his second term as governor of New Mexico.

Fabiola Córdova is a program officer for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Washington, DC, and has worked extensively in Haiti.

Jean-Marie Simon is a photographer and author of Guatemala: Eterna Primavera, Eterna Tiranía.

Germán Lodola is at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and the University of Pittsburgh and Margarita Corral is at Vanderbilt University.

Frank Moya Pons is a consultant for institutional development in the Dominican Republic. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of Florida.

Adam Isacson is a senior associate in the security policy program at the Washington Office on Latin America.