Authors

Ricardo Hausmann is Director of Harvard University’s Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Lisa Viscidi is the director of the energy, climate change and extractive industries program at the Inter-American Dialogue.

Javier Corrales is professor of political science at Amherst College and member of the editorial board of Americas Quarterly. The second edition of his co-authored book Dragon in the Tropics: Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez came out in April 2015.

Thomas Lovejoy, 67, biólogo com doutorado pela Universidade Yale, foi vice-presidente do World Wildlife Fund (1973-1987, EUA), secretário-assistente da Smithsonian Institution (1987-1999) e assessorchefe de biodiversidade do Banco Mundial (1999-2002).

Bruce Babbitt has served as the Governor of Arizona and the U.S. secretary of the interior. He is currently researching IIRSA as a fellow of the Blue Moon Fund.

Kelly A. McBride directed the Carter Center’s office in Ecuador (2007-2008), where she managed a dialogue and conflict-resolution project between Colombian and Ecuadorian opinion-makers. She is an independent consultant working on democracy, humanitarian and conflict-management projects in the Americas. 

Chris J. Katopis serves as the Computing Technology Industry Association’s (CompTIA) Director for Global Intellectual Property. Gilberto Galan is Director of Policy, Latin America and Caribbean Region at CompTIA.

Pablo Díaz is editor of cubaencuentro.com and editorial board member for the magazine Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.

Silvana Paternostro is a Colombian-born journalist and author of My Colombian War (2007).

Paul E. Sigmund is Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. He has written numerous books and articles on Chilean politics and contributed to Patricia Verdugo’s Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death (2001).

Lucy Conger covers Latin America for publications including Institutional Investor magazine, Emerging Markets newspaper and Business News Americas online service.

  Aníbal Faundes is full professor of obstetrics at the State University of Campinas, Brazil.

Sharon Squassoni is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.