Authors

Vermaut is the regional head of illicit trade prevention for Latin America and Canada at Philip Morris International

Rear Admiral Tiongson is the director of operations at U.S. Southern Command

Dr. José Miguel Cruz is the director of research at the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University’s Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He is an expert in the area of criminal violence, gangs, police, democratization and public opinion in Latin America.

Schmidt is a journalist, columnist in the digital newspaper El Líbero, and professor at Chile’s Universidad de los Andes

Dietrich was the transportation minister of Argentina from 2015 to 2019.

Pérez Correa is a criminal law researcher and professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) and a columnist and board member of newspaper El Universal.

Tommasi is professor of economics and director of the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Humano at Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina and fellow of the Econometric Society.

Guido Neidhöfer is advanced researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany.

Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and founding director of the Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University; nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue; and founding member and president emerita of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA).

Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is an assistant professor at Universidad del Pacífico and a PhD candidate at University College London.