Authors

Adrián Pérez is a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina.

Alan Clutterbuck is the president and co-founder of Fundación Red de Acción Política (RAP–Political Action Network), and Paula Montoya is the executive director. RAP is a pluralist, nonpartisan foundation engaged in promoting the improvement of political leadership in Argentina.

José Ignacío Beteta is executive director of the Centro de Desarrollo Educativo Integral (CENDEIT), a Peruvian non-profit organization that develops social, educational and environmental projects abroad.

Esteban Bullrich is a senator for the province of Buenos Aires and Argentina’s former minister of education.

Frank Calzon is executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba in Washington DC.

Maarten van Aalst is Associate Director and Lead Climate Specialist at the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre in The Hague, Netherlands. He also advises the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on climate risk management.

Peter M. Siavelis is a professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, and has published widely on Chilean politics.

Adolfo Garcé is a full-time professor and researcher at the Universidad de la República’s Instituto de Ciencia Política in Montevideo, Uruguay. He has published several books and articles on Uruguayan politics and is a political columnist for El Observador, a daily newspaper published in Montevideo.

Miguel Centellas is Croft Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. His research focuses on the effects of instituional reform on electoral politics in Bolivia.

Gary Bland is a fellow and senior advisor for democratic governance at RTI International.

Jorge Pontual is a New York correspondent for Brazil’s Globo TV.

Gabriel Marcella is adjunct professor at the U.S. Army War College.

Jorge Fábrega has a PhD in public policy from the University of Chicago and is an assistant professor at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile.

Antonio Ugalde is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Núria Homedes is director of global health at the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health.