Authors

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 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 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 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 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 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 is the National Immigration Correspondent for The New York Times.

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 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.

Steven Griner is an associate at the Inter-American Dialogue.

Patricio Navia is a contributing columnist for Americas Quarterly, professor of liberal studies at NYU and professor of political science at Diego Portales University in Chile. He is a member of AQ‘s editorial board.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a sociologist and member of Americas Quarterly’s editorial board, was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002.

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University.