Authors

Senator John F. Kerry is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a five-term U.S. Senator and a decorated Vietnam veteran. He was the 2004 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States.

Ricardo Lagos is the former President of Chile and currently the President of Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo; he is also a member of AQ‘s editorial board and Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General on Climate Change.

Santiago A. Canton is the executive director of RFK Partners for Human Rights at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights.    

Kimberly Ascoli and Tamar S. Benzaken are recent graduates of the Masters in International Affairs program at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.    

Daniel W. Fisk, formerly special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs on the National Security Council, is currently the senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL). The views expressed are his own.

Eusebio Mujal-León is a professor of government at Georgetown University.    

Ian W.H. Parry is the Allen Kneese Chair and senior fellow at Resources for the Future.

Denny Ellerman is a senior lecturer of applied economics at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.    

Thomas Andrew O’Keefe is president of the Washington DC-based Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd. and Evan Scott Thomas is a senior international economist.

Sasha Chavkin is a freelance reporter whose work has previously been funded by a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship and a Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

Andrew Selee is the president of the Migration Policy Institute

Víctor Abramovich is the second vice president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He was previously Commissioner and the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women for the Commission.