Authors

Pablo Bachelet is the Latin American diplomatic correspondent for The Miami Herald in Washington.

Luiz Mello is a sociologist at the Universidade Federal de Goias, Anna Paula Uziel is a psychologist at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Miriam Grossi is an anthropologist at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

Gary Hufbauer is the Reginald Jones Senior Fellow and Barbara Kotschwar is a research associate at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Lisa M. Schineller is Director of Sovereign Ratings at Standard & Poor’s and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University.

Dennis Barbosa is an independent journalist based in Sao Paulo.

Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat teaches Political Theory at Florida International University and is the National Secretary of the Cuban Democratic Directorate.

Gary Marx was the Chicago Tribune’s Havana correspondent from 2002-2007.

Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto is a professor of demography at Cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.  He is also the President of the National Commission on Population and Development (CNDP) in Brazil, and holds a PhD in demography from the University of California at Berkeley.

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs is Executive Director of the Employment Sector at the International Labour Organization in Geneva.

Guillermo Perry is a research associate at Fedesarrollo and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.  From 1996 to 2007, he served as Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank and, for 1994 to 1996, as Colombian Minister of Finance and Public Credit.

José Antonio Ocampo, former under-secretary general of the United Nations for economic and social affairs and minister of finance of Colombia, is professor of professional practice in international and public affairs at Columbia University.

Sanjay G. Reddy is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics, Barnard College and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

David Pimentel, PhD, is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Entomology at Cornell University.

Bruce Dale is a Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and Editor-in-Chief of Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining.

Enrique Desmond Arias is an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.