Authors

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.

Lance Steagall is an AQ contributing writer.

Tammy Newmark serves as president of The Nature Conservancy’s EcoEnterprises Fund. For more than 25 years she has specialized in environmental, socially responsible and renewable energy investments in emerging markets. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Carolina Pasquali is a journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil. She has published her articles in several magazines in Brazil, Spain and the United States and has worked as a corporate social responsibility consultant in Brazil.

Ralph Pentland is president of Ralbert Enterprises, acting chairman of the Canadian Water Issues Council and a member of the Forum for Leadership on Water.

Steven Sanderson, PhD, is president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, a global conservation organization based in New York. Since the 1970s he has worked in academia and as a conservationist throughout Latin America.