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
Martina Rapido Ragozzino
Martina Rapido Ragozzino is an Americas research assistant at Human Rights Watch.
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.
Alain Vermaut
Vermaut is the regional head of illicit trade prevention for Latin America and Canada at Philip Morris International
Andrew J. Tiongson
Rear Admiral Tiongson is the director of operations at U.S. Southern Command
José Miguel Cruz
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.
