Politics, Business & Culture in the Americas
 

Jacqueline Peschard

Jacqueline Peschard is a Mexican sociologist and professor at UNAM, where she specializes in political and electoral systems. She is a former counselor to the National Electoral Institute.

 

Brenda Brito

Brito is an associate researcher at Imazon.

 

Gerardo Berthin

Berthin is the director of the Latin America and Caribbean programs at Freedom House

Luis Guillermo Solís

Solís served as the 47th president of Costa Rica (2014–2018). He has written extensively on Latin America and co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel for the Economic Empowerment of Women. Solís was the interim director and a distinguished visiting professor at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University from 2018 … Read more

 

Edmund Ruge

Ruge is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro.

 

Noah Bullock

Bullock is the executive director of the Cristosal Foundation, an El Salvador-based human rights organization

 

Roman Ortiz

Roman Ortiz is vice president of Cordillera Applications Group, a firm specialized in security and political risk analysis and advising. Previously, he worked as consultant to USAID and CNA Corporation. Between 2010 and 2014, he was adviser to the Colombian minister of defense.

 

Ramon Ortiz

Ramon Ortiz is vice president of Cordillera Applications Group, a firm specialized in security and political risk analysis and advising. Previously, he worked as consultant to USAID and CNA Corporation. Between 2010 and 2014, he was adviser to the Colombian minister of defense.

 

Kris Urs

Urs is a retired American diplomat, having served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru from 2017-2020, and as the U.S. government’s lead commercial aviation negotiator from 2010-2014. He is currently CEO of the Air Transport Consultancy, LCC.

 

Sebastián López Brach

López Brach is an Argentine documentary photographer and visual artist whose work has been exhibited and published worldwide. In 2019 and 2020 he received the Early Career Grant from National Geographic to research the environmental and cultural importance of the largest wetlands in Latin America.

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