Authors

Silvana Fumega is the research and policy director of the Latin American Initiative for Open Data.

Carolina Sampó is a policy expert and coordinator at Amassuru, a network of Latin American and Caribbean women working in security and defense.

Lago is the executive director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS).

Roberto de Michele is the coordinator of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Cluster of Transparency and Integrity.

Patrick Duddy served as the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 2007 to 2010. Retired from the State Department, he now teaches at Duke University where he is the director of its Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies

Kevin P. Gallagher is a professor of global development policy at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies where he directs the Global Development Policy Center.