Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Alejandro Toledo

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

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

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

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

Julia Preston is the National Immigration Correspondent for The New York Times.

 

Joel Starr

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 and Aili Tripp

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.

delacalle_top

Luis de la Calle

Luis de la Calle is managing director at De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C., and from 1999 to 2002 was Mexico’s undersecretary for international trade negotiations in Mexico’s Ministry of the Economy. He also served as trade and NAFTA minister at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. During his term he was instrumental in crafting and implementing the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Read more

 

Steven Griner

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

Patricio Navia

Patricio Navia is a professor of liberal studies at NYU and a professor of political science at Diego Portales University in Chile. He also is a member of AQ‘s editorial board.

 

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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

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

 

Florencia Torche

Florencia Torche is an assistant professor of sociology at New York University and at the Catholic University of Chile. She is also assistant director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia University.

Michael Reid

Reid is a writer and journalist. His latest book is “Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country” (Yale)

Sign up for our free newsletter