Authors

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.

Coletta A. Youngers is an Associate at the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC). John M. Walsh is a Senior Associate for the Andes and Drug Policy at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).

Carlos Alberto Montaner is a syndicated journalist and writer. His latest book is Latin America and the West.

Hector Morales, formerly the U.S. permanent representative to the OAS, is a consultant in the private sector and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies.

Dan Rosenheck is The Economist’s bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

Sergio Leitão is the campaign director for Greenpeace-Brasil, former executive director for Instituto Sócio Ambiental and former senior assistant to the Ministry of Justice in President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s administration.