Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

John M. Carey

John M. Carey is the John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College.

 

Adriana Beltrán

Adriana Beltrán is an associate on organized crime and police reform at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).

 

Mariclaire Acosta

Mariclaire Acosta is the Americas Director for the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York.

 

Susana Villarán de la Puente

Susana Villarán de la Puente is a former member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the former Special Rapporteur for Women’s Rights on the Commission. She is currently a member of the United Nations Commission on Children’s Rights.

 

Simon Strong

Simon Strong is senior managing director of the business advisory firm, FTI Consulting, Inc., and heads its Global Risk and Investigations Practice at its Miami office. An author of books on guerrilla violence, drugs trafficking and corruption, he is a specialist in Latin America security matters.

 

Claudio Grossman

Claudio Grossman is the dean of the Washington College of Law at American University and was twice the president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

 

Alejandro Toledo

Alejandro Toledo was president of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He is currently the president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy (GCDD) and consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

 

Lila Barrera-Hernández

Lila Barrera-Hernández is an environmental and natural resources lawyer and the author of “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Peru’s Approach to Indigenous Land and Resources and the Law,” a chapter in the forthcoming book, Sustainable Futures: Comparative Perspectives on Communal Lands and Individual Ownership. Her article titled “Recent Developments in Social Impact Management in … Read more

 

Alberto Saracho Martínez

Alberto Saracho Martínez lives in Mexico City, Mexico, and is the founding president of Fundación IDEA, one of Mexico’s first non-profit independent think-tanks.  

 

Joshua Goodman

Joshua Goodman is a Rio de Janeiro-based editor for Bloomberg News, responsible for the news agency’s political and economic coverage from Latin America.

 

Julia Preston

Julia Preston is the National Immigration Correspondent for The New York Times.

 

Joel Starr

Joel E. Starr was the deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2007 to 2009, and is a major in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

 

Alice Kang and Aili Tripp

Alice Kang is a PhD candidate in political science, and Aili Tripp is a professor of political science and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Luis de la Calle

Luis de la Calle is managing director at De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C., and from 1999 to 2002 was Mexico’s undersecretary for international trade negotiations in Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy. He also served as trade and NAFTA minister at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. During his term he was instrumental in crafting and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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