Authors

Morris Panner, CEO of TownFlier, is a Senior Advisor at Harvard University Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a member of the board of directors of the Washington Office on Latin America.  Previously, he was a Federal Prosecutor in Manhattan and Resident Legal Advisor in the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia.

Keith Dannemiller is a photographer based in Mexico City.

Marco Enríquez-Ominami was the independent candidate and third runner-up in the first round of the 2009 Chilean presidential elections.

Anne Hawkins is a fishery analyst at the New England Fishery Management Council.

Michael J. McGuinness and Manuel A. Orillac are partners in the Mergers & Acquisitions team at Shearman & Sterling LLP and are located in New York and Abu Dhabi, respectively. Kristopher Ferranti, Kagayaki Funakoshi and Cynthia Phillips contributed research to this article.

Alex Vatanka is a scholar at Middle East Institute and editor of Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst.

Marcel Biato is an assistant to the chief foreign policy advisor of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Carlos Lauría is the Americas Senior Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Vanda Felbab-Brown is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.  She is also a Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Gregory Meeks is the U.S. Representative for New York’s 6th Congressional District and a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Daniel Wilkinson is deputy director of the Americas at Human Rights Watch.

Kevin Casas-Zamora is the secretary-general of International IDEA and a former vice president of Costa Rica.

Jaime Alemán is the Ambassador of Panama to the United States.