Authors

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.

Anthony Spanakos is an associate professor in the department of political science and law at Montclair State University.  

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

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

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

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 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.